1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 starttime 1241725433.49922 2 00:00:02,001 --> 00:00:06,000 A SUFFICIENT NUMBER H 3 00:00:06,001 --> 00:00:07,000 THE NAYS ARE 114. 4 00:00:07,001 --> 00:00:12,000 ONE VOTING PRESENT. 5 00:00:12,001 --> 00:00:14,000 THE BILL IS PASSED. 6 00:00:14,001 --> 00:00:15,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, THE MOTION 7 00:00:15,001 --> 00:00:18,000 TO RECONSIDER IS LAID UPON THE 8 00:00:18,001 --> 00:00:19,000 TABLE. 9 00:00:19,001 --> 00:00:21,000 MR. FRANK: MR. SPEAKER. 10 00:00:21,001 --> 00:00:22,000 THE SPEAKER PRTEMPORE: FOR 11 00:00:22,001 --> 00:00:24,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN 12 00:00:24,001 --> 00:00:25,000 FROM MASSACHUSETTS ARISE? 13 00:00:25,001 --> 00:00:26,000 MR. FRANK: I ASK UNANIMOUS 14 00:00:26,001 --> 00:00:34,000 CONSENT THAT IN THE ENGROSSMENT 15 00:00:34,001 --> 00:00:35,000 OF H.R. 1738, PUNCTUATION MAY 16 00:00:35,001 --> 00:00:36,000 BE CHANGED AND BROUGHT BACK TO 17 00:00:36,001 --> 00:00:38,000 THE HOUSE. 18 00:00:38,001 --> 00:00:39,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 19 00:00:39,001 --> 00:00:40,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION. 20 00:00:40,001 --> 00:00:41,000 THE CHAIR WILL RECEIVE A 21 00:00:41,001 --> 00:00:43,000 MESSAGE. 22 00:00:43,001 --> 00:00:44,000 THE MESSENGER: MR. SPEAKER, A 23 00:00:44,001 --> 00:00:45,000 MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 24 00:00:45,001 --> 00:00:47,000 THE SECRETARY: MR. SPEAKER. 25 00:00:47,001 --> 00:00:49,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: MADAM 26 00:00:49,001 --> 00:00:51,000 SECRETARY. THE SECRETARY: I HAVE BEEN 27 00:00:51,001 --> 00:00:54,000 DIRECTED TO INFORM THE HOUSE 28 00:00:54,001 --> 00:00:56,000 THAT THE SENATE HAS PASSED S. 29 00:00:56,001 --> 00:00:58,000 454, AN ACT CITED AS THE 30 00:00:58,001 --> 00:01:00,000 WEAPONS ACQUISITION REFORM ACT 31 00:01:00,001 --> 00:01:05,000 OF 2009, IN WHICH THE 32 00:01:05,001 --> 00:01:07,000 CONCURRENCE OF THE HOUSE IS 33 00:01:07,001 --> 00:01:09,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION, THE 34 00:01:09,001 --> 00:01:41,000 AMENDMENT TO TITLE 19 IS 35 00:01:41,001 --> 00:01:43,000 ADOPTED. 36 00:01:43,001 --> 00:01:45,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 37 00:01:45,001 --> 00:01:46,000 CHAIR LAYS BEFORE THE HOUSE AN 38 00:01:46,001 --> 00:01:51,000 AMENDMENT -- A MESSAGE. 39 00:01:51,001 --> 00:01:52,000 EX 40 00:01:52,001 --> 00:01:54,000 THE CLERK: TO THE CONGRESS OF 41 00:01:54,001 --> 00:01:55,000 THE UNITED STATES, SECTION 42 00:01:55,001 --> 00:01:58,000 202-D OF THE NATIONAL 43 00:01:58,001 --> 00:02:02,000 EMERGENCIES ACT, 50 U.S.C. 44 00:02:02,001 --> 00:02:04,000 122-D PROVIDES FOR THE 45 00:02:04,001 --> 00:02:06,000 AUTOMATIC TERMINATION OF THE 46 00:02:06,001 --> 00:02:08,000 EMERGENCY UNLESS THE PRESIDENT 47 00:02:08,001 --> 00:02:10,000 PUBLISHES IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER STATING THAT THE 48 00:02:10,001 --> 00:02:11,000 EMERGENCY IS TO CONTINUE IN 49 00:02:11,001 --> 00:02:13,000 EFFECT BEYOND THE ANNIVERSARY 50 00:02:13,001 --> 00:02:15,000 DATE. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS 51 00:02:15,001 --> 00:02:16,000 PROVISION I HAVE SENT TO THE 52 00:02:16,001 --> 00:02:18,000 FEDERAL REGISTER FOR 53 00:02:18,001 --> 00:02:19,000 PUBLICATION THE ENCLOSED NOTICE 54 00:02:19,001 --> 00:02:20,000 STATING THAT THE NATIONAL 55 00:02:20,001 --> 00:02:22,000 EMERGENCY WILL RESPECT -- WITH 56 00:02:22,001 --> 00:02:25,000 RESPECT TO THE GOVERNMENT OF SYRIA DECLARE AN EXECUTIVE 57 00:02:25,001 --> 00:02:27,000 ORDER 1338 OF MAY 11, 2004, AND 58 00:02:27,001 --> 00:02:29,000 RELIED UPON FOR ADDITIONAL 59 00:02:29,001 --> 00:02:32,000 STEPS TAKEN IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 60 00:02:32,001 --> 00:02:35,000 1339 OF APRIL 25, 2006, AND 61 00:02:35,001 --> 00:02:36,000 EXECUTIVE ORDER 14360 OF 62 00:02:36,001 --> 00:02:38,000 FEBRUARY 13, 2008, IS TO 63 00:02:38,001 --> 00:02:40,000 CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND MAY 64 00:02:40,001 --> 00:02:41,000 11, 2009. 65 00:02:41,001 --> 00:02:43,000 THE ACTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT 66 00:02:43,001 --> 00:02:44,000 OF SYRIA IN SUPPORTING 67 00:02:44,001 --> 00:02:45,000 TERRORISM, PURSUING WEAPONS OF 68 00:02:45,001 --> 00:02:47,000 MASS DESTRUCTION AND MISSILE 69 00:02:47,001 --> 00:02:48,000 PROGRAMS AND UNDERMINING U.S. 70 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:49,000 AND INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS WITH 71 00:02:49,001 --> 00:02:51,000 RESPECT TO THE STABILIZATION 72 00:02:51,001 --> 00:02:54,000 AND RECONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ POSE 73 00:02:54,001 --> 00:02:56,000 A CONTINUING, UNUSUAL AND 74 00:02:56,001 --> 00:02:58,000 EXTRAORDINARY THREAT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, FOREIGN 75 00:02:58,001 --> 00:02:59,000 POLICY AND ECONOMY OF THE 76 00:02:59,001 --> 00:03:01,000 UNITED STATES. 77 00:03:01,001 --> 00:03:02,000 FOR THESE REASONS I HAVE 78 00:03:02,001 --> 00:03:04,000 DETERMINED THAT IT IS NECESSARY 79 00:03:04,001 --> 00:03:06,000 TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED 80 00:03:06,001 --> 00:03:08,000 WITH RESPECT TO THIS THREAT AND 81 00:03:08,001 --> 00:03:10,000 TO MAINTAIN AND ENFORCE THE 82 00:03:10,001 --> 00:03:11,000 SANCTIONS TO ADDRESS THIS 83 00:03:11,001 --> 00:03:13,000 NATIONAL EMERGENCY. 84 00:03:13,001 --> 00:03:17,000 SIGNED, BARACK OBAMA, THE WHITE 85 00:03:17,001 --> 00:03:19,000 HOUSE, MAY 7, 2009. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 86 00:03:19,001 --> 00:03:25,000 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON 87 00:03:25,001 --> 00:03:29,000 FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND AND ORDERED 88 00:03:29,001 --> 00:03:30,000 PRINTED. 89 00:03:30,001 --> 00:03:32,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 90 00:03:32,001 --> 00:03:35,000 GENTLEMAN FROM VIRGINIA RISE? 91 00:03:35,001 --> 00:03:36,000 MR. CANTOR: THANK YOU, 92 00:03:36,001 --> 00:03:38,000 SPEAKER. 93 00:03:38,001 --> 00:03:40,000 I ASK TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE FOR THE PURPOSES OF 94 00:03:40,001 --> 00:03:41,000 INQUIRING ABOUT NEXT WEEK'S 95 00:03:41,001 --> 00:03:42,000 SCHEDULE. 96 00:03:42,001 --> 00:03:43,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 97 00:03:43,001 --> 00:03:45,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION. 98 00:03:45,001 --> 00:03:46,000 MR. CANTOR: I THANK THE SPEAKER 99 00:03:46,001 --> 00:03:47,000 AND I YIELD TO THE GENTLEMAN 100 00:03:47,001 --> 00:03:49,000 FROM MARYLAND, THE MAJORITY 101 00:03:49,001 --> 00:03:50,000 LEADER, FOR THE PURPOSE OF 102 00:03:50,001 --> 00:03:51,000 ANNOUNCING NEXT WEEK'S 103 00:03:51,001 --> 00:03:53,000 SCHEDULE. 104 00:03:53,001 --> 00:03:55,000 MR. HOYER: I THANK THE GENTLEMAN FOR YIELDING. 105 00:03:55,001 --> 00:03:57,000 ONDAY, MR. SPEAKER, THE 106 00:03:57,001 --> 00:03:59,000 HOUSE WILL MEET IN PRO FORMA SESSION AT 2:00 P.M. 107 00:03:59,001 --> 00:04:00,000 ON TUESDAY THE HOUSE WILL MEET 108 00:04:00,001 --> 00:04:02,000 AT 12:30 P.M. FOR MORNING HOUR 109 00:04:02,001 --> 00:04:03,000 DEBATE AND 2:00 P.M. FOR 110 00:04:03,001 --> 00:04:04,000 LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS WITH VOTES 111 00:04:04,001 --> 00:04:06,000 POSTPONED UNTIL 6:30. 112 00:04:06,001 --> 00:04:08,000 ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY THE HOUSE WILL MEET AT 10:00 FOR 113 00:04:08,001 --> 00:04:09,000 LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS. 114 00:04:09,001 --> 00:04:11,000 ONRIDAY THE HOUSE WILL MEET 115 00:04:11,001 --> 00:04:12,000 AT 9:00 A.M. FOR LEGISLATIVE 116 00:04:12,001 --> 00:04:13,000 BUSINESS. 117 00:04:13,001 --> 00:04:15,000 WE WILL CONSIDER SEVERAL BILLS 118 00:04:15,001 --> 00:04:16,000 UNDER SUSPENSION OF THE RULES. 119 00:04:16,001 --> 00:04:19,000 A COMPLETE LIST OF THOSE BILLS 120 00:04:19,001 --> 00:04:20,000 WILL BE PROVIDED BY THE END OF 121 00:04:20,001 --> 00:04:22,000 BUSINESS TOMORROW. 122 00:04:22,001 --> 00:04:25,000 IN ADDITION WE WILL CONSIDER 123 00:04:25,001 --> 00:04:28,000 H.R. 2187, THE 21ST CENTURY 124 00:04:28,001 --> 00:04:31,000 GREEN HIGH-PERFORMING PUBLIC 125 00:04:31,001 --> 00:04:40,000 SCHOOLS FACILITIES ACT, H.R. 126 00:04:40,001 --> 00:04:41,000 2101 AND THE FISCAL 2009 127 00:04:41,001 --> 00:04:42,000 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS 128 00:04:42,001 --> 00:04:44,000 BILL. 129 00:04:44,001 --> 00:04:46,000 MR. CANTOR: MR. SPEAKER, I 130 00:04:46,001 --> 00:04:48,000 THANK THE GENTLEMAN. MR. SPEAKER,'D ASK THE 131 00:04:48,001 --> 00:04:50,000 GENTLEMAN WHAT DAYS THAT HE 132 00:04:50,001 --> 00:04:52,000 WOULD THINK THAT THE MEASURES 133 00:04:52,001 --> 00:04:54,000 HE DISCUSSED WOULD COME TO THE 134 00:04:54,001 --> 00:04:58,000 FLOOR NEXT WEEK. 135 00:04:58,001 --> 00:05:02,000 MR. HOYER: AND I -- 136 00:05:02,001 --> 00:05:03,000 MR. CANTOR: AND I YIELD. 137 00:05:03,001 --> 00:05:05,000 MR. HOYER: THE 21ST CENTURY 138 00:05:05,001 --> 00:05:06,000 GREEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FACILITIES 139 00:05:06,001 --> 00:05:07,000 ACT WILL BE ON THE FLOOR 140 00:05:07,001 --> 00:05:09,000 TUESDAY -- WEDNESDAY. 141 00:05:09,001 --> 00:05:12,000 THE WEAPONS ACQUISITION SYSTEM 142 00:05:12,001 --> 00:05:14,000 AND SUPPLEMENTAL I WOULD EXCEPT 143 00:05:14,001 --> 00:05:16,000 THE PPLEMENTAL ON THURSDAY OR 144 00:05:16,001 --> 00:05:18,000 FRIDAY, DEPENDING UPON HOW OUR 145 00:05:18,001 --> 00:05:20,000 BUSINESS PROCEEDS. 146 00:05:20,001 --> 00:05:22,000 MR. CANTOR: I THANK THE 147 00:05:22,001 --> 00:05:23,000 GENTLEMAN FOR THAT. 148 00:05:23,001 --> 00:05:25,000 AND AS, MR. SPEAKER, AS THE 149 00:05:25,001 --> 00:05:27,000 GENTLEMAN HAS DISCUSSED NEXT 150 00:05:27,001 --> 00:05:29,000 WEEK'S SCHEDULE, I'DIKE TO 151 00:05:29,001 --> 00:05:31,000 ASK THE GENTLEMAN IF HE COULD 152 00:05:31,001 --> 00:05:33,000 GIVE THE HOUSE AND THE PUBLIC A 153 00:05:33,001 --> 00:05:35,000 SENSE OF WHAT TO EXPECT FOR THE 154 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:37,000 FOLLOWING WEEK AS WELL AND I'D 155 00:05:37,001 --> 00:05:38,000 YIELD. 156 00:05:38,001 --> 00:05:39,000 MR. HOYER: WELL, WE HAVE A 157 00:05:39,001 --> 00:05:40,000 NUMBER OF PIECES OF 158 00:05:40,001 --> 00:05:41,000 LEGISLATION. 159 00:05:41,001 --> 00:05:42,000 WE'VE DONE A LOT OVER THIS WORK 160 00:05:42,001 --> 00:05:44,000 PERIOD. 161 00:05:44,001 --> 00:05:46,000 WE DID THE WATER RESEARCH AND 162 00:05:46,001 --> 00:05:48,000 DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE ACT, CREDIT CARD LEGISLATION, HATE 163 00:05:48,001 --> 00:05:49,000 CRIMES, BUDGET CONFERENCE 164 00:05:49,001 --> 00:05:50,000 REPORT, MORTGAGE REFORM AND 165 00:05:50,001 --> 00:05:52,000 ANTI-PREDATORY LENDING 166 00:05:52,001 --> 00:05:54,000 WHICH WE PASSED, AND THE FIGHT 167 00:05:54,001 --> 00:05:56,000 FRAUD ACT, WHICH WE PASSED 168 00:05:56,001 --> 00:05:57,000 TODAY OR YESTERDAY AND WE DID 169 00:05:57,001 --> 00:06:00,000 THE PREDATORY LENDING. 170 00:06:00,001 --> 00:06:02,000 IN ADDITION TO THE ITEMS I 171 00:06:02,001 --> 00:06:04,000 ALREADY MENTIONED FOR NEXT 172 00:06:04,001 --> 00:06:05,000 WEEK, WE'LL BE KEEPING 173 00:06:05,001 --> 00:06:07,000 OBVIOUSLY IN TOUCH WITH THE 174 00:06:07,001 --> 00:06:09,000 SENATE AS TO WHAT THEY ARE 175 00:06:09,001 --> 00:06:10,000 PASSING. 176 00:06:10,001 --> 00:06:12,000 WE GET A NUMBER OF THESE ITEMS 177 00:06:12,001 --> 00:06:13,000 CONFERENCED BEFORE WE HAVE OUR 178 00:06:13,001 --> 00:06:15,000 BREAK ON MEMORIAL DAY. 179 00:06:15,001 --> 00:06:16,000 WE HOPE THAT WILL HAPPEN AS 180 00:06:16,001 --> 00:06:18,000 WELL. 181 00:06:18,001 --> 00:06:20,000 BU 182 00:06:20,001 --> 00:06:22,000 THAT WILL BE PENDING. 183 00:06:22,001 --> 00:06:24,000 I HOPE TO BE ABLE TO MOVE THE 184 00:06:24,001 --> 00:06:26,000 D.C. VOTE BILL. 185 00:06:26,001 --> 00:06:30,000 WE'RE WORKING ON THAT BEFORE 186 00:06:30,001 --> 00:06:32,000 THE MEMORIAL DAYBREAK. 187 00:06:32,001 --> 00:06:34,000 AND WE WILL SEE WHAT THE 188 00:06:34,001 --> 00:06:36,000 COMMITTEES ARE ABLE TO REPORT 189 00:06:36,001 --> 00:06:39,000 OUT IN THE COMING WEEK THAT WE 190 00:06:39,001 --> 00:06:40,000 CAN PUT ON THE FLOOR THE LAST 191 00:06:40,001 --> 00:06:42,000 WEEK. 192 00:06:42,001 --> 00:06:44,000 MR. CANTOR: THANK YOU, MR. 193 00:06:44,001 --> 00:06:46,000 SPEAKER. MR. SPEAKER, I ASK THE 194 00:06:46,001 --> 00:06:47,000 GENTLEMAN TO FOLLOW-UP ON THE 195 00:06:47,001 --> 00:06:49,000 PROSPECTS OF THE D.C. BILL AND 196 00:06:49,001 --> 00:06:52,000 ASK WHETHER HE COULD ASSURE THE 197 00:06:52,001 --> 00:06:55,000 MEMBERS ON FRANKLY BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE WHO ARE CONCERNED 198 00:06:55,001 --> 00:06:57,000 ABOUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT WHETHER THERE WILL BE THE 199 00:06:57,001 --> 00:06:58,000 NECESSARY PROTECTIONS FOR THE 200 00:06:58,001 --> 00:07:01,000 SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS IN THAT 201 00:07:01,001 --> 00:07:02,000 MEASURE AND I YIELD. 202 00:07:02,001 --> 00:07:04,000 MR. HOYER: I THINK ALL OF US 203 00:07:04,001 --> 00:07:05,000 ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE SECOND 204 00:07:05,001 --> 00:07:06,000 AMENDMENT. 205 00:07:06,001 --> 00:07:08,000 I HOPE ALL OF US ARE ALSO 206 00:07:08,001 --> 00:07:09,000 CONCERNED ABOUT 600,000 207 00:07:09,001 --> 00:07:11,000 CITIZENS IN THE UNITED STATES 208 00:07:11,001 --> 00:07:12,000 OF AMERICA WHO HAVE A 209 00:07:12,001 --> 00:07:13,000 REPRESENTATIVE IN THIS HOUSE 210 00:07:13,001 --> 00:07:15,000 WHO CAN'T VOTE. 211 00:07:15,001 --> 00:07:18,000 UNFORTUNATELY, TOO MANY PEOPLE 212 00:07:18,001 --> 00:07:19,000 IN MY VIEW VOTED AGAINST THAT 213 00:07:19,001 --> 00:07:21,000 BILL. 214 00:07:21,001 --> 00:07:24,000 SO WHAT WE HAVE NOW DONE IS 215 00:07:24,001 --> 00:07:27,000 UNDERMINE THE HOME RULE RIGHTS 216 00:07:27,001 --> 00:07:28,000 OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AS 217 00:07:28,001 --> 00:07:29,000 WELL AS PREVENTING THEM FROM 218 00:07:29,001 --> 00:07:30,000 VOTING ON THIS FLOOR. 219 00:07:30,001 --> 00:07:32,000 I THINK THAT'S VERY 220 00:07:32,001 --> 00:07:33,000 UNFORTUNATE. 221 00:07:33,001 --> 00:07:34,000 AS THE GENTLEMAN IS WELL AWARE, 222 00:07:34,001 --> 00:07:36,000 THERE ARE OBVIOUSLY SIGNIFICANT 223 00:07:36,001 --> 00:07:38,000 DIFFERENCES ON THE AMENDMENT 224 00:07:38,001 --> 00:07:41,000 THAT WAS OFFERED IN THE SENATE. 225 00:07:41,001 --> 00:07:42,000 WE'RE GOING TO BE CONSIDERING 226 00:07:42,001 --> 00:07:43,000 HOW WE CAN TRY TO GET THIS BILL 227 00:07:43,001 --> 00:07:46,000 THROUGH. 228 00:07:46,001 --> 00:07:50,000 BECAUSE THE REALITY IS NEITHER 229 00:07:50,001 --> 00:07:51,000 POSITION MIGHT ENJOY A MAJORITY 230 00:07:51,001 --> 00:07:53,000 IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS. 231 00:07:53,001 --> 00:07:54,000 EITHER IN THE SENATE OR PERHAPS 232 00:07:54,001 --> 00:07:56,000 HERE. 233 00:07:56,001 --> 00:08:00,000 SO I AM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT 234 00:08:00,001 --> 00:08:02,000 HOW WE CAN GIVE 600,000 OF OUR 235 00:08:02,001 --> 00:08:03,000 CITIZENS, AN AWFUL LOT OF US 236 00:08:03,001 --> 00:08:07,000 GET UP ON THIS FLOOR AND WE 237 00:08:07,001 --> 00:08:10,000 TALK ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT 238 00:08:10,001 --> 00:08:11,000 IN THE 1980'S BEHIND THE IRON 239 00:08:11,001 --> 00:08:13,000 CURTAIN TO GET PEOPLE FREE. 240 00:08:13,001 --> 00:08:16,000 WE TALK ABOUT IN CUBA HOW IT'S 241 00:08:16,001 --> 00:08:17,000 IMPORTANT TO GET PEOPLE FREE. 242 00:08:17,001 --> 00:08:19,000 WE TALK ABOUT HOW IT'S 243 00:08:19,001 --> 00:08:23,000 IMPORTANT IN SOME MIDDLE EAST 244 00:08:23,001 --> 00:08:24,000 STATES TO GIVE PEOPLE 245 00:08:24,001 --> 00:08:26,000 BUT HERE IN THE NATION'S 246 00:08:26,001 --> 00:08:29,000 CAPITAL, THE CENTER OF FREEDOM 247 00:08:29,001 --> 00:08:31,000 AND DEMOCRACY WE DO NOT HAVE A 248 00:08:31,001 --> 00:08:34,000 REPRESENTATIVE UNLIKE ANY OTHER 249 00:08:34,001 --> 00:08:36,000 CAPITAL OF ANY OTHER DEMOCRATIC 250 00:08:36,001 --> 00:08:39,000 NATION IN THE WORLD THEIR 251 00:08:39,001 --> 00:08:41,000 REPRESENTATIVE CANNOT VOTE IN 252 00:08:41,001 --> 00:08:44,000 THIS PARLIAMENT. I THINK THAT'S A TRAGEDY. 253 00:08:44,001 --> 00:08:45,000 I THINK IT'S A DIMINISHMENT OF 254 00:08:45,001 --> 00:08:47,000 OUR DEMOCRACY. 255 00:08:47,001 --> 00:08:50,000 AND I WILL TELL THE GENTLEMAN 256 00:08:50,001 --> 00:08:52,000 THAT I WOULD HOPE THAT THIS 257 00:08:52,001 --> 00:08:56,000 HOUSE WOULD RISE UP AS ONE 258 00:08:56,001 --> 00:08:58,000 VOICE SAYING THIS IS NOT RIGHT 259 00:08:58,001 --> 00:08:59,000 AND WE WILL PASS THE D.C. 260 00:08:59,001 --> 00:09:01,000 VOTING RIGHTS. 261 00:09:01,001 --> 00:09:05,000 WE CAN DEAL WITH OTHER ISSUES 262 00:09:05,001 --> 00:09:06,000 THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT BUT IT 263 00:09:06,001 --> 00:09:09,000 CERTAINLY SEEMS TO ME THAT WE 264 00:09:09,001 --> 00:09:10,000 OUGHT TO DEAL WITH THAT ISSUE 265 00:09:10,001 --> 00:09:11,000 DIRECTLY. 266 00:09:11,001 --> 00:09:13,000 AS YOU KNOW WHEN MR. DAVIS 267 00:09:13,001 --> 00:09:16,000 INTRODUCED THAT BILL A MAJORITY 268 00:09:16,001 --> 00:09:18,000 OF YOUR PARTY, AN OVERWHELMING 269 00:09:18,001 --> 00:09:21,000 MAJORITY OF THAT PARTY, MR. 270 00:09:21,001 --> 00:09:22,000 DAVIS BEING YOUR PARTY, DID NOT 271 00:09:22,001 --> 00:09:24,000 SUPPORT THAT BILL. 272 00:09:24,001 --> 00:09:26,000 THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT THE 273 00:09:26,001 --> 00:09:27,000 AMENDMENT THAT WAS ADDED TO THE 274 00:09:27,001 --> 00:09:29,000 SENATE COMPLICATES ITS 275 00:09:29,001 --> 00:09:30,000 CONSIDERATION HERE WHICH IS WHY 276 00:09:30,001 --> 00:09:32,000 IT HASN'T COME TO THE FLOOR A 277 00:09:32,001 --> 00:09:33,000 LONG TIME AGO. 278 00:09:33,001 --> 00:09:34,000 BUT WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE IT 279 00:09:34,001 --> 00:09:36,000 OUT. 280 00:09:36,001 --> 00:09:37,000 MR. CANTOR: I THANK THE 281 00:09:37,001 --> 00:09:38,000 GENTLEMAN. 282 00:09:38,001 --> 00:09:40,000 MY QUESTION WAS NOT TO GET IN 283 00:09:40,001 --> 00:09:41,000 THE SUBSTANCE OF THE D.C. BILL 284 00:09:41,001 --> 00:09:43,000 BUT THOSE OF US O ARE ARDENT 285 00:09:43,001 --> 00:09:44,000 SUPPORTERS OF THE SECOND 286 00:09:44,001 --> 00:09:46,000 AMENDMENT RIGHTS WOULD SEE THAT 287 00:09:46,001 --> 00:09:47,000 ACTUALLY THE CITIZENS OF THE 288 00:09:47,001 --> 00:09:48,000 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COULD 289 00:09:48,001 --> 00:09:50,000 ENJOY THOSE RIGHTS AS WELL. 290 00:09:50,001 --> 00:09:52,000 SO, MR. SPEAKER, I WOULD ASK 291 00:09:52,001 --> 00:09:55,000 THE GENTLEMAN ABOUT THE 292 00:09:55,001 --> 00:09:58,000 OMISSION OF THE CAP AND TRADE 293 00:09:58,001 --> 00:09:59,000 BILL IN HIS DISCUSSION FOR THE 294 00:09:59,001 --> 00:10:01,000 SCHEDULE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL 295 00:10:01,001 --> 00:10:02,000 WEEKS. 296 00:10:02,001 --> 00:10:04,000 AND THE REPORTS HAVE INDICATED 297 00:10:04,001 --> 00:10:08,000 THAT CHAIRMAN WAXMAN HAS NOW 298 00:10:08,001 --> 00:10:10,000 COMMITTED TO BRINGING THAT BILL 299 00:10:10,001 --> 00:10:13,000 THAT HAS BEEN DEBATED AT LEAST 300 00:10:13,001 --> 00:10:16,000 IN SUBCOMMITTEE FORWARD OR AT 301 00:10:16,001 --> 00:10:18,000 LEAST BEYOND THAT SUBCOMMITTEE 302 00:10:18,001 --> 00:10:19,000 TO THE FULL COMMITTEE INSTEAD 303 00:10:19,001 --> 00:10:20,000 OF THE DISCUSSION IN THE 304 00:10:20,001 --> 00:10:23,000 SUBCOMMITTEE. 305 00:10:23,001 --> 00:10:25,000 AND IT HAS GIVEN SOME OF OUR 306 00:10:25,001 --> 00:10:28,000 MEMBERS SOME CAUSE FOR ALARM 307 00:10:28,001 --> 00:10:32,000 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A 308 00:10:32,001 --> 00:10:33,000 SIGNIFICANT SHIFT IN THE 309 00:10:33,001 --> 00:10:35,000 POLICY. 310 00:10:35,001 --> 00:10:37,000 SOME OF US ARE VERY OPPOSED TO 311 00:10:37,001 --> 00:10:39,000 WHAT THIS BILL WOULD DO AND 312 00:10:39,001 --> 00:10:41,000 HAVE THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT 313 00:10:41,001 --> 00:10:44,000 THIS BILL WOULD DO IN MIND. 314 00:10:44,001 --> 00:10:47,000 AND, YOU KNOW, IF WE LOOK, MR. 315 00:10:47,001 --> 00:10:50,000 OF THE AISLE WHO ARE ON THAT 316 00:10:50,001 --> 00:10:51,000 HAVE A SAY IN THE CRAFTING OF 317 00:10:51,001 --> 00:10:54,000 ANY LEGISLATION, ESPECIALLY IN 318 00:10:54,001 --> 00:10:56,000 THE AREA OF ENERGY, SOMEBODY 319 00:10:56,001 --> 00:10:57,000 LIKE JOHN SHIMKUS WHO HAS A 320 00:10:57,001 --> 00:10:59,000 DISTRICT THAT IS VERY RICH WITH 321 00:10:59,001 --> 00:11:02,000 COAL, VERY, VERY CONCERNING TO 322 00:11:02,001 --> 00:11:04,000 HIM IN TERMS OF THE ECONOMY AND 323 00:11:04,001 --> 00:11:07,000 JOBS. PEOPLE LIKE ON YOUR SIDE OF THE 324 00:11:07,001 --> 00:11:08,000 AISLE, THE GENTLEMAN FROM 325 00:11:08,001 --> 00:11:11,000 LOUISIANA, CHARLIE MELANCON ON 326 00:11:11,001 --> 00:11:12,000 THAT COMMITTEE VERY INTERESTED 327 00:11:12,001 --> 00:11:14,000 IN THE ENERGY INDUSTRY. 328 00:11:14,001 --> 00:11:18,000 BARON HILL FROM INDIANA WHO HAS 329 00:11:18,001 --> 00:11:20,000 BIG CONCERNS ON THE COAL ISSUE. 330 00:11:20,001 --> 00:11:21,000 SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA IS ABUNDANT 331 00:11:21,001 --> 00:11:22,000 WITH COAL AND NATURAL 332 00:11:22,001 --> 00:11:25,000 SOURCES. 333 00:11:25,001 --> 00:11:27,000 IT WOULD IMPACT THAT REGION 334 00:11:27,001 --> 00:11:28,000 JUST IT WOULD DEVASTATE THAT 335 00:11:28,001 --> 00:11:30,000 REGION IF SUCH A BILL WERE TO 336 00:11:30,001 --> 00:11:31,000 GO FORWARD. 337 00:11:31,001 --> 00:11:33,000 ALL OF THESE MEMBERS, MR. 338 00:11:33,001 --> 00:11:34,000 SPEAKER, DO HAVE A DESIRE, I'M 339 00:11:34,001 --> 00:11:39,000 SURE, TO BE PART OF THE DEBATE. 340 00:11:39,001 --> 00:11:41,000 AND I WOULD ASK IS IT THE 341 00:11:41,001 --> 00:11:42,000 LEADER'S INTENTION THAT THIS IS 342 00:11:42,001 --> 00:11:44,000 A GOOD MOVE? 343 00:11:44,001 --> 00:11:45,000 HE IS THE LEADER AND HIS 344 00:11:45,001 --> 00:11:47,000 CHAIRMAN AND ONE OF THEM HAS 345 00:11:47,001 --> 00:11:48,000 DECIDED TO MOVE THE BILL BEYOND 346 00:11:48,001 --> 00:11:50,000 THE SUBCOMMITTEE. 347 00:11:50,001 --> 00:11:51,000 IS THAT SOMETHING THAT HE 348 00:11:51,001 --> 00:11:53,000 SUPPORTS? 349 00:11:53,001 --> 00:11:54,000 AND THEN, IS IT THE INTENTION, 350 00:11:54,001 --> 00:11:56,000 MR. SPEAKER, I WOULD ASK OF THE 351 00:11:56,001 --> 00:11:59,000 LEADER, TO BRING THE BILL 352 00:11:59,001 --> 00:12:00,000 DIRECTLY TO THE FLOOR ONCE, I ASSUME, IT PASSES THE FULL 353 00:12:00,001 --> 00:12:03,000 COMMITTEE? 354 00:12:03,001 --> 00:12:05,000 AND I YIELD. MR. HOYER: I THANK THE 355 00:12:05,001 --> 00:12:06,000 GENTLEMAN FOR YIELDING. 356 00:12:06,001 --> 00:12:07,000 FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO SAY TO 357 00:12:07,001 --> 00:12:08,000 THE GENTLEMAN, THE REASON IT'S 358 00:12:08,001 --> 00:12:12,000 NOT ON THE CALENDAR FOR THE 359 00:12:12,001 --> 00:12:13,000 NEXT TWO WEEKS, IT WAS NEVER 360 00:12:13,001 --> 00:12:16,000 INTENDED TO BE ON THE CALENDAR 361 00:12:16,001 --> 00:12:20,000 OVER THE NEXT TWOEEKS. 362 00:12:20,001 --> 00:12:21,000 THE INTENTION AS I'VE 363 00:12:21,001 --> 00:12:23,000 ARTICULATED ALL ALONG AND THE 364 00:12:23,001 --> 00:12:26,000 CHAIRMAN'S INTENTION WAS TO 365 00:12:26,001 --> 00:12:29,000 HAVE A TARGET OF MARKING UP THE 366 00:12:29,001 --> 00:12:31,000 BILL IN COMMITTEE PRIOR TO THE 367 00:12:31,001 --> 00:12:32,000 MEMORIAL DAYBREAK. 368 00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:33,000 SO THERE WAS NEVER ANY 369 00:12:33,001 --> 00:12:35,000 INTEION THAT A BL WOULD BE 370 00:12:35,001 --> 00:12:36,000 ON THE FLOOR PRIOR TO THE 371 00:12:36,001 --> 00:12:38,000 MEMORIAL DAYBREAK. 372 00:12:38,001 --> 00:12:39,000 SECONDLY, I WOULD TELL THE 373 00:12:39,001 --> 00:12:42,000 GENTLEMAN, I DON'T KNOW THAT 374 00:12:42,001 --> 00:12:44,000 THE CHRMAN HAS MADE A 375 00:12:44,001 --> 00:12:46,000 DECISION ON WHETHER TO MARK IT 376 00:12:46,001 --> 00:12:48,000 UP IN SUBCOMMITTEE OR MARK IT UP IN FULL COMMITTEE. 377 00:12:48,001 --> 00:12:50,000 I DO KNOW THAT IT'S GOING TO BE 378 00:12:50,001 --> 00:12:53,000 MARKED UP IN COMMITTEE, OPENO 379 00:12:53,001 --> 00:12:54,000 AMENDMENT IN COMMITTEE, OPEN TO 380 00:12:54,001 --> 00:12:56,000 DEBATE AND OPEN TO A VOTE. 381 00:12:56,001 --> 00:12:57,000 WHETHER IT'S IN SUBCOMMITTEE OR 382 00:12:57,001 --> 00:12:59,000 FULL COMMITTEE, THAT 383 00:12:59,001 --> 00:13:01,000 DETERMINATION AS I UNDERSTAND 384 00:13:01,001 --> 00:13:04,000 IT HAS NOT BEEN MADE. 385 00:13:04,001 --> 00:13:06,000 BUT IT WILL BE CERTAINLY MARKED 386 00:13:06,001 --> 00:13:08,000 UP IN COMMITTEE AND SUBJECT TO 387 00:13:08,001 --> 00:13:10,000 FULL DEBATE. 388 00:13:10,001 --> 00:13:11,000 MR. CANTOR: I THANK THE 389 00:13:11,001 --> 00:13:13,000 GENTLEMAN. 390 00:13:13,001 --> 00:13:14,000 RETURNING TO NEXT WEEK'S 391 00:13:14,001 --> 00:13:15,000 AGENDA, MR. SPEAKER, FOR A 392 00:13:15,001 --> 00:13:16,000 MOMENT. 393 00:13:16,001 --> 00:13:18,000 HE MENTIONED THAT THE WAR 394 00:13:18,001 --> 00:13:19,000 SUPPLEMENTAL WILL BE COMING TO 395 00:13:19,001 --> 00:13:22,000 THE FLOOR, AND IT PROVIDES US 396 00:13:22,001 --> 00:13:24,000 WITH A CHANCE -- I KNOW HE 397 00:13:24,001 --> 00:13:26,000 AGREES -- TO ACCOMPLISH ONE OF 398 00:13:26,001 --> 00:13:28,000 THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO DO HERE AS MEMBERS 399 00:13:28,001 --> 00:13:30,000 OF CONGRESS WHICH IS TO PROVIDE 400 00:13:30,001 --> 00:13:31,000 FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF OUR 401 00:13:31,001 --> 00:13:33,000 COUNTRY. 402 00:13:33,001 --> 00:13:35,000 AND AS THE GENTLEMAN KNOWS, 403 00:13:35,001 --> 00:13:36,000 MANY OF US, MOST OF US IF NOT 404 00:13:36,001 --> 00:13:38,000 ALL REPUBLICANS STAND WITH THIS 405 00:13:38,001 --> 00:13:42,000 PRESIDENT IN SUPPORT OF HIS 406 00:13:42,001 --> 00:13:45,000 STRATEGY IN AFGHANISTAN AND THE 407 00:13:45,001 --> 00:13:47,000 GENERAL REGION AND PAKISTAN, 408 00:13:47,001 --> 00:13:49,000 IRAQ. AND WE STAND WITH THE PRESIDENT 409 00:13:49,001 --> 00:13:50,000 IN HIS SUPPORT OF OUR TROOPS 410 00:13:50,001 --> 00:13:51,000 THERE. 411 00:13:51,001 --> 00:13:53,000 AND I KNOW THAT THERE HAVE 412 00:13:53,001 --> 00:13:54,000 BEEN, MR. SPEAKER, SOME 413 00:13:54,001 --> 00:13:56,000 DISAGREEMENTS ON THE 414 00:13:56,001 --> 00:13:58,000 GENTLEMAN'S SIDE OF THE AISLE. 415 00:13:58,001 --> 00:13:59,000 AS FAR AS THE ISSUES HAVING TO 416 00:13:59,001 --> 00:14:04,000 DEAL WITH TIMETABLES, THE 417 00:14:04,001 --> 00:14:05,000 ISSUES OF HAVING TO DO WITH 418 00:14:05,001 --> 00:14:08,000 CUTTING OFF FUNDING OF TRANSFER 419 00:14:08,001 --> 00:14:11,000 OF DETAINEES FROM THE 420 00:14:11,001 --> 00:14:12,000 GUANTANAMO BAY DETENTION CENTER 421 00:14:12,001 --> 00:14:14,000 FACILITY. 422 00:14:14,001 --> 00:14:15,000 SO I ASSUME, AND MAYBE IT'S AN 423 00:14:15,001 --> 00:14:17,000 IMPROPER ASSUMPTION, MR. 424 00:14:17,001 --> 00:14:18,000 SPEAKER, AND I'D ASK THE 425 00:14:18,001 --> 00:14:19,000 GENTLEMAN IF HE COULD COMMENT, 426 00:14:19,001 --> 00:14:22,000 IF HE BELIEVES THAT HE WILL 427 00:14:22,001 --> 00:14:24,000 NEED THE HELP AND BIPARTISAN 428 00:14:24,001 --> 00:14:26,000 SUPPORT TO PASS THIS BILL THAT 429 00:14:26,001 --> 00:14:28,000 WE ARE INTERESTED ON THIS SIDE 430 00:14:28,001 --> 00:14:30,000 IN HELPING PASS FOR OUR TROOPS, 431 00:14:30,001 --> 00:14:33,000 IS IT YOUR -- IS IT HIS 432 00:14:33,001 --> 00:14:34,000 INTENTION THAT WE WILL HAVE AN 433 00:14:34,001 --> 00:14:38,000 OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS SOME OF 434 00:14:38,001 --> 00:14:40,000 THESE CONCERNS ON THE FLOOR? SPECIFICALLY IF HE COULD TELL 435 00:14:40,001 --> 00:14:43,000 US WHETHER AN AMENDMENT SUCH AS 436 00:14:43,001 --> 00:14:45,000 THAT PROPOSED BY MR. TIAHRT 437 00:14:45,001 --> 00:14:46,000 FROM KANSAS AND THE 438 00:14:46,001 --> 00:14:48,000 APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE 439 00:14:48,001 --> 00:14:49,000 BANNING ANY FURTHER 440 00:14:49,001 --> 00:14:52,000 APPROPRIATIONS BEING ALLOWED IN 441 00:14:52,001 --> 00:14:53,000 THE AREA OF TRANSFERRING 442 00:14:53,001 --> 00:14:58,000 DETAINEES FROM THE GUANTANAM@ 443 00:14:58,001 --> 00:14:59,000 BAY FACILITY, AND I YIELD. 444 00:14:59,001 --> 00:15:01,000 MR. HOYER: THE -- I THANK THE 445 00:15:01,001 --> 00:15:03,000 GENTLEMAN FOR YIELDING. 446 00:15:03,001 --> 00:15:05,000 THE MARKUP WAS JUST CONCLUDED. 447 00:15:05,001 --> 00:15:08,000 I HAVE NOT REVIEWED THE TIAHRT 448 00:15:08,001 --> 00:15:11,000 AMENDMENT NOR HAVE I HAD 449 00:15:11,001 --> 00:15:13,000 DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CHAIRMAN 450 00:15:13,001 --> 00:15:14,000 REGARDING THE RULE AND WHAT 451 00:15:14,001 --> 00:15:17,000 AMENDMENTS WOULD BE ASKED FOR 452 00:15:17,001 --> 00:15:19,000 OR WHAT AMENDMENTS WOULD BE 453 00:15:19,001 --> 00:15:21,000 MADE IN ORDER. 454 00:15:21,001 --> 00:15:24,000 VERY FRANKLY, I WILL TELL MY 455 00:15:24,001 --> 00:15:26,000 FRIEND, IT'S NOT THE MAJORITY 456 00:15:26,001 --> 00:15:27,000 NEEDS YOUR HELP IN PASSING THIS 457 00:15:27,001 --> 00:15:28,000 BILL. 458 00:15:28,001 --> 00:15:29,000 OUR TROOPS NEED YOUR HELP IN 459 00:15:29,001 --> 00:15:31,000 PASSING THIS BILL. 460 00:15:31,001 --> 00:15:33,000 OUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOUR HELP. 461 00:15:33,001 --> 00:15:36,000 AND I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS THAT YOU SUPPORTHE PRESIDENT 462 00:15:36,001 --> 00:15:37,000 IN HIS EFFORTS IN AFGHANISTAN 463 00:15:37,001 --> 00:15:41,000 AND PAKISTAN. 464 00:15:41,001 --> 00:15:44,000 WE ARE CONFRONTED WITH EXTRAORDINARILY DIFFICULT 465 00:15:44,001 --> 00:15:46,000 SITUATION, DESTABILIZING 466 00:15:46,001 --> 00:15:50,000 SITUATION, DANGEROUS SITUATION, 467 00:15:50,001 --> 00:15:51,000 AND THIS SUPPLEMENTAL OBVIOUSLY 468 00:15:51,001 --> 00:15:55,000 IS DIRECTED AT MAKING SURE THAT 469 00:15:55,001 --> 00:15:56,000 OUR TROOPS HAVE THE RESOURCES 470 00:15:56,001 --> 00:15:58,000 THEY NEED TO PURE THE 471 00:15:58,001 --> 00:16:01,000 OBJECTIVES THAT WE AND THE 472 00:16:01,001 --> 00:16:03,000 PRESIDENT HAVE GIVEN TO THEM. 473 00:16:03,001 --> 00:16:05,000 AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING 474 00:16:05,001 --> 00:16:06,000 THAT BILL PASSED WITH 475 00:16:06,001 --> 00:16:08,000 BIPARTISAN SUPPORT. 476 00:16:08,001 --> 00:16:09,000 . CANTOR: I THANK THE 477 00:16:09,001 --> 00:16:11,000 GENTMAN. 478 00:16:11,001 --> 00:16:12,000 MR. SPEAKER, I WOULD JUST SAY 479 00:16:12,001 --> 00:16:14,000 TO REITERATE MY POINT, MY SENSE 480 00:16:14,001 --> 00:16:16,000 IS AND I'M NOT THE ONE WHO 481 00:16:16,001 --> 00:16:19,000 COUNTS VOTES ON HIS SIDE OF THE AISLE, BUT AS A FORMER WHIP I 482 00:16:19,001 --> 00:16:20,000 KNOW HE KNOWS THAT THERE IS 483 00:16:20,001 --> 00:16:22,000 SOME DIFFICULTY AND IT IS MY 484 00:16:22,001 --> 00:16:24,000 HUNCH THAT WITHOUT THE SUPPORT 485 00:16:24,001 --> 00:16:25,000 OF REPUBLICANS THAT THE 486 00:16:25,001 --> 00:16:28,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE WOULDN'T SEE 487 00:16:28,001 --> 00:16:30,000 THE MONEY FLOW TO THEIR TROOPS. 488 00:16:30,001 --> 00:16:32,000 BUT I'D LIKE TO AT THIS TIME, 489 00:16:32,001 --> 00:16:34,000 MR. SPEAKER, YIELD TO MY 490 00:16:34,001 --> 00:16:36,000 COLLEAGUE FROM 491 00:16:36,001 --> 00:16:38,000 KIRK. MR. KIRK: THE MAJORITY LEADER 492 00:16:38,001 --> 00:16:39,000 IS CORRECT. 493 00:16:39,001 --> 00:16:40,000 THE COMMITTEE JUST FINISHED 494 00:16:40,001 --> 00:16:42,000 CONSIDERATION OF THIS 495 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:43,000 LEGISLATION AND THE TIAHRT 496 00:16:43,001 --> 00:16:45,000 AMENDMENT. 497 00:16:45,001 --> 00:16:46,000 AND DURING MY DEBATE, 498 00:16:46,001 --> 00:16:47,000 CONGRESSMAN WOLF HIGHLIGHTED 499 00:16:47,001 --> 00:16:49,000 REPORTS THAT HE HAD RECEIVED 500 00:16:49,001 --> 00:16:55,000 FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT THREE 501 00:16:55,001 --> 00:16:58,000 TERRORISTS FROM THE EAST 502 00:16:58,001 --> 00:17:00,000 ISLAMIC MOVEMENT WAS SET TO BE 503 00:17:00,001 --> 00:17:01,000 IN MCCLAIN, VIRGINIA. 504 00:17:01,001 --> 00:17:03,000 BUT TO HIS OBJECTION THAT MIGHT 505 00:17:03,001 --> 00:17:05,000 HAVE HAPPENED. 506 00:17:05,001 --> 00:17:07,000 SO IT GAVE AN URGENCY TO THE 507 00:17:07,001 --> 00:17:08,000 TIAHRT AMENDMENT. 508 00:17:08,001 --> 00:17:10,000 SINCE FORMER CHAIRMAN WOLF, NOW 509 00:17:10,001 --> 00:17:12,000 RANKING MEMBER WOLF, HAD 510 00:17:12,001 --> 00:17:14,000 RECEIVED THIS REPORT FROM LOCAL 511 00:17:14,001 --> 00:17:15,000 LAW ENFORCEMENT IN HIS DISTRICT 512 00:17:15,001 --> 00:17:17,000 AND WAS CONCERNED THAT THINGS 513 00:17:17,001 --> 00:17:19,000 WERE MOVING MUCH QUICKER THAN OTHERWISE WE WOULD HAVE 514 00:17:19,001 --> 00:17:20,000 THOUGHT. 515 00:17:20,001 --> 00:17:21,000 AND I YIELD BACK TO THE 516 00:17:21,001 --> 00:17:23,000 GENTLEMAN. 517 00:17:23,001 --> 00:17:25,000 . 518 00:17:25,001 --> 00:17:27,000 MR. CANTOR: I THINK THAT 519 00:17:27,001 --> 00:17:29,000 UNDERSCORES THE IMPORTANCE OF A 520 00:17:29,001 --> 00:17:31,000 BIPARTISAN EFFORT HERE IN THIS 521 00:17:31,001 --> 00:17:33,000 BILL, AND FRANKLY IF HE WERE TO 522 00:17:33,001 --> 00:17:35,000 SEE COMING FORWARD A RULE THAT 523 00:17:35,001 --> 00:17:37,000 WOULD ALLOW FOR US TO HAVE THE 524 00:17:37,001 --> 00:17:39,000 DISPOSITION OF THESE ISSUES ON 525 00:17:39,001 --> 00:17:41,000 THE FLOOR, I DO BELIEVE THE 526 00:17:41,001 --> 00:17:43,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE WOULD BE BETTER 527 00:17:43,001 --> 00:17:44,000 SERVED AND CERTAINLY OUR MEN AND 528 00:17:44,001 --> 00:17:46,000 WOMEN IN UNIFORM. 529 00:17:46,001 --> 00:17:53,000 WITH THAT, MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD 530 00:17:53,001 --> 00:17:54,000 BACK. 531 00:17:54,001 --> 00:17:55,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 532 00:17:55,001 --> 00:18:12,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN 533 00:18:12,001 --> 00:18:15,000 FROM MARYLAND RISE? 534 00:18:15,001 --> 00:18:16,000 MR. HOYER: MR. SPEAKER, I ASK 535 00:18:16,001 --> 00:18:18,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT WHEN THE 536 00:18:18,001 --> 00:18:20,000 HOUSE ADJOURNS TODAY IT ADJOURN 537 00:18:20,001 --> 00:18:21,000 TO MEET AT 2:00 P.M. ON MONDAY 538 00:18:21,001 --> 00:18:23,000 NEXT AND FURTHER WHEN THE HOUSE 539 00:18:23,001 --> 00:18:25,000 ADJOURNS ON THAT DAY, IT ADJOURN 540 00:18:25,001 --> 00:18:27,000 TO MEET AT 12:30 P.M. ON 541 00:18:27,001 --> 00:18:29,000 TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2009, FOR 542 00:18:29,001 --> 00:18:30,000 MORNING HOUR DEBATE. 543 00:18:30,001 --> 00:18:31,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 544 00:18:31,001 --> 00:18:33,000 OBJECTION WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO 545 00:18:33,001 --> 00:18:34,000 ORDERED. 546 00:18:34,001 --> 00:19:02,000 -- WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO 547 00:19:02,001 --> 00:19:03,000 ORDERED. 548 00:19:03,001 --> 00:19:04,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 549 00:19:04,001 --> 00:19:07,000 CHAIR LAYS BEFORE THE HOUSE A 550 00:19:07,001 --> 00:19:09,000 MESSAGE. 551 00:19:09,001 --> 00:19:12,000 THE CLERK: TO THE CONGRESS OF 552 00:19:12,001 --> 00:19:13,000 HONOR TO TRANSMIT TO YOU THE 553 00:19:13,001 --> 00:19:15,000 BUDGET OF THE UNITED STATES 554 00:19:15,001 --> 00:19:17,000 GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010. 555 00:19:17,001 --> 00:19:20,000 IN MY FEBRUARY 26 BUDGET 556 00:19:20,001 --> 00:19:21,000 OVERVIEW, A NEW ERA OF 557 00:19:21,001 --> 00:19:23,000 RESPONSIBILITY, RENEWING 558 00:19:23,001 --> 00:19:25,000 AMERICA'S PROMISE, I HAVE 559 00:19:25,001 --> 00:19:26,000 PROVIDE ADD BROAD OUTLINE HOW 560 00:19:26,001 --> 00:19:28,000 OUR NATION CAME TO THIS MOMENT 561 00:19:28,001 --> 00:19:29,000 OF ECONOMIC FINANCIAL AND FISCAL 562 00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:31,000 CRISIS AND HOW MY ADMINISTRATION 563 00:19:31,001 --> 00:19:34,000 PLANS TO MOVE THIS ECONOMY FROM 564 00:19:34,001 --> 00:19:35,000 RECESSIO TO RECOVERY ANDAY A 565 00:19:35,001 --> 00:19:37,000 NEWFOUNDATION FOR LONG-TERM 566 00:19:37,001 --> 00:19:38,000 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROSPERITY. 567 00:19:38,001 --> 00:19:42,000 THIS BUDGET FILLS OUT THIS 568 00:19:42,001 --> 00:19:44,000 PICTURE BY PROVIDING FULL 569 00:19:44,001 --> 00:19:45,000 PROGRAMIC DETAILS AND PROPOSING 570 00:19:45,001 --> 00:19:46,000 APPROPRIATIONS LANGUAGE AND 571 00:19:46,001 --> 00:19:48,000 OTHER REQUIRED INFORMATION FOR 572 00:19:48,001 --> 00:19:50,000 THE CONGRESS TO PUT THESE PLANS 573 00:19:50,001 --> 00:19:51,000 FULLY INTO EFFECT. 574 00:19:51,001 --> 00:19:54,000 SPECIFICALLY THIS BUDGET DETAILS 575 00:19:54,001 --> 00:19:56,000 THE PILLARS OF THE STABLE AND 576 00:19:56,001 --> 00:19:57,000 BROAD ECONOMIC GROWTH WE SEEK. 577 00:19:57,001 --> 00:20:00,000 MAKING LONG OVERDUE INVESTMENTS 578 00:20:00,001 --> 00:20:02,000 AND REFORMS IN EDUCATIONO THA 579 00:20:02,001 --> 00:20:04,000 EVERY CHILD CAN COMPLETE -- 580 00:20:04,001 --> 00:20:05,000 COMPETE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY 581 00:20:05,001 --> 00:20:07,000 UNDERTAKING HEALTH CARE REFORM 582 00:20:07,001 --> 00:20:09,000 SO THAT WE CAN CONTROL COST 583 00:20:09,001 --> 00:20:11,000 WHILE BOOSTING COVERAGE AND 584 00:20:11,001 --> 00:20:12,000 QUALITY AND INVESTING IN 585 00:20:12,001 --> 00:20:14,000 RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY SO 586 00:20:14,001 --> 00:20:16,000 THAT WE CAN REDUCE OUR 587 00:20:16,001 --> 00:20:18,000 DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL AND 588 00:20:18,001 --> 00:20:21,000 BECOME THE WORLD LEADER IN THE 589 00:20:21,001 --> 00:20:22,000 NEW CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY. 590 00:20:22,001 --> 00:20:25,000 FISCAL DISCIPLINE IS ANOTHER 591 00:20:25,001 --> 00:20:27,000 CRITICAL PILLAR IN THIS ECONOMIC FOUNDATION. 592 00:20:27,001 --> 00:20:29,000 MY ADMINISTRATION CAME INTO 593 00:20:29,001 --> 00:20:32,000 OFFICE FACING A BUDGET DEFICIT 594 00:20:32,001 --> 00:20:33,000 OF $1.3 TRILLION FOR THIS YEAR 595 00:20:33,001 --> 00:20:35,000 ALONE, AND THE COST OF 596 00:20:35,001 --> 00:20:37,000 CONFRONTING THE RECESSION AND 597 00:20:37,001 --> 00:20:39,000 FINANCIAL CRISIS HAS BEEN HIGH. 598 00:20:39,001 --> 00:20:40,000 WHILE THERE ARE -- WHILE THESE 599 00:20:40,001 --> 00:20:42,000 ARE EXTRAORDINARY TIMES THAT 600 00:20:42,001 --> 00:20:43,000 HAVE DEMANDED EXTRAORDINARY 601 00:20:43,001 --> 00:20:46,000 RESPONSES, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO 602 00:20:46,001 --> 00:20:48,000 PUT OUR NATION ON A COURSE FOR 603 00:20:48,001 --> 00:20:50,000 LONG-TERM GROWTH WITHOUT 604 00:20:50,001 --> 00:20:51,000 BEGINNING TO REIN IN 605 00:20:51,001 --> 00:20:53,000 UNSUSTAINABLE DEFICITS AND DEBT. 606 00:20:53,001 --> 00:20:54,000 WE NO LONGER CAN AFFORD TO 607 00:20:54,001 --> 00:20:58,000 TOLERATE IESTMENTS IN PROGRAMS 608 00:20:58,001 --> 00:20:59,000 THAT ARE OUTDATED, DUPLICATIVE, 609 00:20:59,001 --> 00:21:01,000 INEFFECTIVE, OR WASTEFUL. 610 00:21:01,001 --> 00:21:02,000 THAT IS WHY THE BUDGET I AM 611 00:21:02,001 --> 00:21:04,000 SENDING TO YOU INCLUDES A 612 00:21:04,001 --> 00:21:08,000 SEPARATE VOLUME OF TERMINATIONS, 613 00:21:08,001 --> 00:21:09,000 REDUCTIONS, AND SAVINGS THAT MY 614 00:21:09,001 --> 00:21:11,000 ADMINISTRATION HAS IDENTIFIED 615 00:21:11,001 --> 00:21:12,000 SINCE WE SENT THE BUDGET 616 00:21:12,001 --> 00:21:13,000 OVERVIEW TO YOU 10 WEEKS AGO. 617 00:21:13,001 --> 00:21:15,000 IN IT WE IDENTIFY PROGRAMS THAT 618 00:21:15,001 --> 00:21:19,000 DO NOT ACCOMPLISH THE GOALS 619 00:21:19,001 --> 00:21:21,000 SEER FOR THEM, DO NOT DO SO 620 00:21:21,001 --> 00:21:23,000 EFFICIENTLY, OR DO A JOB ALREADY 621 00:21:23,001 --> 00:21:25,000 DONE BY ANOTHER INITIATIVE. 622 00:21:25,001 --> 00:21:27,000 OVERALL, WE HAVE TARGETED MORE 623 00:21:27,001 --> 00:21:30,000 THAN 100 PROGRAMS THAT SHOULD BE 624 00:21:30,001 --> 00:21:33,000 ENDED OR SUBSTANTIALLY CHANGED, 625 00:21:33,001 --> 00:21:35,000 MOVES THAT WILL SAVE NEARLY $17 626 00:21:35,001 --> 00:21:36,000 BILLION NEXT YEAR ALONE. 627 00:21:36,001 --> 00:21:38,000 THESE EFFORTS ARE JUST THE NEXT 628 00:21:38,001 --> 00:21:40,000 PHASE OF A LARGER AND LONGER 629 00:21:40,001 --> 00:21:42,000 EFFORT NEEDED TO CHANGE HOW 630 00:21:42,001 --> 00:21:44,000 WASHINGTON DOES BUSINESS AND PUT 631 00:21:44,001 --> 00:21:45,000 OUR FINANCIAL HOUSE IN ORDER. 632 00:21:45,001 --> 00:21:48,000 TO THAT END THE BUDGET INCLUDES 633 00:21:48,001 --> 00:21:50,000 BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SAVINGS 634 00:21:50,001 --> 00:21:51,000 FROM STEPS RANGING FROM ENDING 635 00:21:51,001 --> 00:21:54,000 SUBSIDIES FOR BIG OIL AND GAS 636 00:21:54,001 --> 00:21:55,000 COMPANIES TO ELIMINATING 637 00:21:55,001 --> 00:21:57,000 ENTITLEMENTS TO BANKS AND 638 00:21:57,001 --> 00:21:59,000 LENDERS MAKING STUDENT LOANS. 639 00:21:59,001 --> 00:22:01,000 IT PROVIDES AN HISTORIC DOWN 640 00:22:01,001 --> 00:22:04,000 PAYMENT ON HEALTH CARE REFORM, 641 00:22:04,001 --> 00:22:05,000 THE KEY TO OUR LONG-TERM FISCAL 642 00:22:05,001 --> 00:22:08,000 FUTURE, AND WAS CONSTRUCTED 643 00:22:08,001 --> 00:22:09,000 WITHOUT COMMONLY USED BUDGET 644 00:22:09,001 --> 00:22:11,000 GIMMICKS THAT, FOR INSTANCE, 645 00:22:11,001 --> 00:22:14,000 HIDE THE TRUE COST OF WAR AND NAR DISASTERS. 646 00:22:14,001 --> 00:22:16,000 EVEN WITH THESE COSTS ON THE 647 00:22:16,001 --> 00:22:18,000 BOOKS, THE BUDGET WILL CUT THE 648 00:22:18,001 --> 00:22:20,000 DEFICIT IN HALF BY THE END OF MY 649 00:22:20,001 --> 00:22:22,000 FIRST TERM AND WE WILL BRING 650 00:22:22,001 --> 00:22:24,000 NONDEFENSE DISCRETIONARY 651 00:22:24,001 --> 00:22:28,000 SPENDING TO ITS LOWESTEVEL AS 652 00:22:28,001 --> 00:22:29,000 A SHARE OF G.D.P. SINCE 1962. 653 00:22:29,001 --> 00:22:31,000 FINALLY, IN ORDER TO KEEP 654 00:22:31,001 --> 00:22:32,000 AMERICA STRONG AND SECURE, THE 655 00:22:32,001 --> 00:22:34,000 BUDGET INCLUDES CRITICAL 656 00:22:34,001 --> 00:22:36,000 INVESTMENTS IN REBUILDING OUR 657 00:22:36,001 --> 00:22:38,000 MILITARY, SURING OUR HOMELAND, 658 00:22:38,001 --> 00:22:40,000 AND EXPANDING OUR DIPLOMATIC 659 00:22:40,001 --> 00:22:42,000 EFFORTS BECAUSE WE NEED TO USE 660 00:22:42,001 --> 00:22:43,000 ALL ELEMENTS OF OUR POWER TO 661 00:22:43,001 --> 00:22:44,000 PROVIDE FOR OUR NATIONAL 662 00:22:44,001 --> 00:22:45,000 SECURITY. 663 00:22:45,001 --> 00:22:46,000 WE ARE NOT ONLY PROPOSING 664 00:22:46,001 --> 00:22:47,000 SIGNIFICANT FUNDING FOR OUR 665 00:22:47,001 --> 00:22:49,000 NATIONAL SECURITY, BUT ALSO 666 00:22:49,001 --> 00:22:51,000 BEING CAREFUL WITH THOSE 667 00:22:51,001 --> 00:22:52,000 INVESTMENTS BY, FOR INSTANCE, 668 00:22:52,001 --> 00:22:54,000 REFORMING DEFENSE CONTRACTING SO 669 00:22:54,001 --> 00:22:57,000 THAT WE ARE USING OUR DEFENSE 670 00:22:57,001 --> 00:22:59,000 DOLLARS TO THEIR MAXIMUM EFFECT. 671 00:22:59,001 --> 00:23:01,000 I HAVE LITTLE DOUBT THAT THERE 672 00:23:01,001 --> 00:23:03,000 WILL BE VARIOUS INTERESTS, VOCAL 673 00:23:03,001 --> 00:23:04,000 AND POWERFUL, WHO WILL OPPOSE 674 00:23:04,001 --> 00:23:05,000 DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THIS 675 00:23:05,001 --> 00:23:06,000 BUDGET. 676 00:23:06,001 --> 00:23:07,000 CHANGE IS NEVER EASY. 677 00:23:07,001 --> 00:23:10,000 HOWEVER I BELIEVE THAT AFTER AN 678 00:23:10,001 --> 00:23:11,000 A OF PROFOUND 679 00:23:11,001 --> 00:23:13,000 IRRESPONSIBILITY, AMERICANS ARE 680 00:23:13,001 --> 00:23:14,000 READY TO EMBRACE THE SHARED 681 00:23:14,001 --> 00:23:16,000 RESPONSIBILITIES WE HAVE TO EACH 682 00:23:16,001 --> 00:23:17,000 OTR AND TO GENERATIONS TO 683 00:23:17,001 --> 00:23:20,000 COME. 684 00:23:20,001 --> 00:23:22,000 EY WANT TO PUT OLD ARGUMENTS 685 00:23:22,001 --> 00:23:24,000 AND THE DIVISIONS OF THE PAST 686 00:23:24,001 --> 00:23:26,000 BEHIND US, BUT PROBLEM SOLVING 687 00:23:26,001 --> 00:23:28,000 -- PUT PROBLEM SOLVING AHEAD OF 688 00:23:28,001 --> 00:23:31,000 POINT SCORING AND RECONSTRUCT AN 689 00:23:31,001 --> 00:23:33,000 ECONOMY THAT IS BUILT ON A SOLID NEWFOUNDATION. 690 00:23:33,001 --> 00:23:35,000 IF WE DO THAT, AMERICA ONCE 691 00:23:35,001 --> 00:23:36,000 AGAIN WILL TEAM WITH NEW 692 00:23:36,001 --> 00:23:39,000 INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE, HUM WITH 693 00:23:39,001 --> 00:23:41,000 THE ENERGY OF NEW DISCOVERIES 694 00:23:41,001 --> 00:23:42,000 AND INVENTION, AND BE A PLACE 695 00:23:42,001 --> 00:23:44,000 WHERE ANYONE WITH A GOOD IDEA 696 00:23:44,001 --> 00:23:46,000 AND THE WILL TO WORK CAN LIVE 697 00:23:46,001 --> 00:23:48,000 THEIR DREAMS. 698 00:23:48,001 --> 00:23:49,000 I AM GRATIFIED AND ENCOURAGED BY 699 00:23:49,001 --> 00:23:51,000 THE SUPPORT I HAVE RECEIVED FROM 700 00:23:51,001 --> 00:23:52,000 THE CONGRESS THUS FAR, AND I 701 00:23:52,001 --> 00:23:54,000 LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU 702 00:23:54,001 --> 00:23:56,000 IN THE WEEKS AHEAD AS WE PUT 703 00:23:56,001 --> 00:23:57,000 THESE PLANS INTO PRACTICE AND 704 00:23:57,001 --> 00:23:59,000 MAKE THIS VISION OF AMERICA A 705 00:23:59,001 --> 00:24:02,000 REALITY. 706 00:24:02,001 --> 00:24:04,000 SIGNED, BARACK OBAMA 707 00:24:04,001 --> 00:24:05,000 HOUSE, MAY 7, 2009. 708 00:24:05,001 --> 00:24:06,000 E SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE MESSAGE IS REFERRED TO THE 709 00:24:06,001 --> 00:24:12,000 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS AND 710 00:24:12,001 --> 00:24:14,000 ORDERED PRINTED. 711 00:24:14,001 --> 00:24:21,000 ARE THERE REQUESTS FOR 712 00:24:21,001 --> 00:24:22,000 ONE-MINUTE SPEECHES? 713 00:24:22,001 --> 00:24:23,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 714 00:24:23,001 --> 00:24:27,000 GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK RISE? 715 00:24:27,001 --> 00:24:28,000 >> I ASK 716 00:24:28,001 --> 00:24:29,000 ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 717 00:24:29,001 --> 00:24:30,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 718 00:24:30,001 --> 00:24:31,000 OBJECTION. >> AND TO REVISE AND EXTEND MY 719 00:24:31,001 --> 00:24:32,000 REMARKS. 720 00:24:32,001 --> 00:24:35,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: SO 721 00:24:35,001 --> 00:24:36,000 MR. TONKO: THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 722 00:24:36,001 --> 00:24:39,000 AS I HAVE PREVIOUSLY STATED ON 723 00:24:39,001 --> 00:24:43,000 THIS HOUSE FLOOR, TRAGICALLY ON 724 00:24:43,001 --> 00:24:44,000 MARCH 5, 2009, ONE OF MY 725 00:24:44,001 --> 00:24:46,000 CONSTITUENT ZENS FROM MY 726 00:24:46,001 --> 00:24:49,000 DISTRICT JASON, PULLED HIS TRUCK 727 00:24:49,001 --> 00:24:51,000 INTO AN ABANDONED GAS STATION 728 00:24:51,001 --> 00:24:52,000 FREQUENTLY USED BY TRUCKERS IN 729 00:24:52,001 --> 00:24:54,000 SOUTH CAROLINA AS A REST STOP 730 00:24:54,001 --> 00:24:56,000 AND WAS THEN AND THERE VIOLENTLY 731 00:24:56,001 --> 00:24:59,000 AND SENSELESSLY SHOT AND MURDERED. 732 00:24:59,001 --> 00:25:02,000 ROBBED OF A MEAGER $7. 733 00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:04,000 AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH JASON 734 00:25:04,001 --> 00:25:06,000 WAS A MERE 12 MILES FROM THE 735 00:25:06,001 --> 00:25:07,000 DESTINATION THAT HE WAS TO 736 00:25:07,001 --> 00:25:09,000 ARRIVE AT. 737 00:25:09,001 --> 00:25:10,000 BUT WAS UNABLE TO MAKE HIS 738 00:25:10,001 --> 00:25:13,000 DELIVERY BECAUSE HE WAS TOO 739 00:25:13,001 --> 00:25:15,000 EARLY. 740 00:25:15,001 --> 00:25:18,000 JASON WAS 35 YEARS OLD. 741 00:25:18,001 --> 00:25:20,000 LEAVING HIS WIFE, HOPE, AND SON, JOSH, BEHIND. 742 00:25:20,001 --> 00:25:21,000 THEY HAD JT MOVED INTO A NEW 743 00:25:21,001 --> 00:25:22,000 HOME. 744 00:25:22,001 --> 00:25:24,000 AS IF THAT STRESS WAS NOT 745 00:25:24,001 --> 00:25:26,000 ENOUGH, SHORTLY AFTER HIS DEATH, 746 00:25:26,001 --> 00:25:29,000 JASON'S WIDOW DELIVERED TWO 747 00:25:29,001 --> 00:25:31,000 HEALTHY TWINS, A BOY NAMED 748 00:25:31,001 --> 00:25:34,000 HEZZKYA AFTER HIS GRANDFATHER, 749 00:25:34,001 --> 00:25:36,000 AND A GIRL NAMED LOGAN. 750 00:25:36,001 --> 00:25:37,000 HIS DEATH SPARKED OUTRAGE AND AN 751 00:25:37,001 --> 00:25:40,000 OUTPOURING OF SUPPORT FOR THE 752 00:25:40,001 --> 00:25:41,000 FAMILY ACROSS OUR COUNTRY. 753 00:25:41,001 --> 00:25:43,000 TRUCKERS AND FAMILMEMBERS ARE 754 00:25:43,001 --> 00:25:47,000 DEMANDING THAT THE GOVERNMENT DO 755 00:25:47,001 --> 00:25:48,000 MORE TO PROTECT TRUCKERS WHO 756 00:25:48,001 --> 00:25:50,000 RISK THEIR LIVES FOLLOWING RULES 757 00:25:50,001 --> 00:25:51,000 THAT REQUIRE THEY PULL OVER AND 758 00:25:51,001 --> 00:25:52,000 REST AFTER A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF 759 00:25:52,001 --> 00:25:55,000 DRIVING TIME. 760 00:25:55,001 --> 00:25:56,000 THERE ARE FEW RESOURCES TELLING 761 00:25:56,001 --> 00:25:58,000 TRUCK DRIVERS WHO ARE OFTEN 762 00:25:58,001 --> 00:26:00,000 UNFAMILIAR WITH THE LOCAL AREA 763 00:26:00,001 --> 00:26:02,000 WHERE A SAFE PLACE TO REST MIGHT 764 00:26:02,001 --> 00:26:04,000 BE. 765 00:26:04,001 --> 00:26:06,000 MOREOVER, THERE ARE FEW SAFE 766 00:26:06,001 --> 00:26:08,000 PLACES TO REST IN THE FIRST PLACE. 767 00:26:08,001 --> 00:26:09,000 MR. SPEAKER, WE MUST DO MORE TO 768 00:26:09,001 --> 00:26:11,000 SUPPORT THESE INCREDIBLY 769 00:26:11,001 --> 00:26:12,000 IMPORTANT MEN AND WOMEN. 770 00:26:12,001 --> 00:26:14,000 THAT IS WHY TRADE GROUPS SUCH AS 771 00:26:14,001 --> 00:26:16,000 THE AMERICAN TRUCKERS 772 00:26:16,001 --> 00:26:17,000 ASSOCIATION, THE OWNER OPERATOR 773 00:26:17,001 --> 00:26:18,000 INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION, 774 00:26:18,001 --> 00:26:20,000 THE COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SAFETY 775 00:26:20,001 --> 00:26:22,000 ALLIANCE, AND THE AMERICAN 776 00:26:22,001 --> 00:26:24,000 MOVING AND STORAGE ASSOCIATION 777 00:26:24,001 --> 00:26:26,000 AND SO MANY MORE SUPPORT H.R. 778 00:26:26,001 --> 00:26:28,000 2156, JASON'S LAW. 779 00:26:28,001 --> 00:26:30,000 MOVING FREIGHT AND GOODS IS 780 00:26:30,001 --> 00:26:32,000 ESSENTIAL TO KEEPING THIS 781 00:26:32,001 --> 00:26:33,000 COUNTRY AND OUR -- 782 00:26:33,001 --> 00:26:34,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 783 00:26:34,001 --> 00:26:35,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 784 00:26:35,001 --> 00:26:41,000 MR. TONKO: WE MUST ENSURE WE 785 00:26:41,001 --> 00:26:42,000 MOVE ON 2156, JASON'S LAW, BY 786 00:26:42,001 --> 00:26:43,000 HONORING A GREAT MAN. 787 00:26:43,001 --> 00:26:46,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 788 00:26:46,001 --> 00:26:47,000 TIME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: DO WE 789 00:26:47,001 --> 00:27:00,000 HAVE FURTHER REQUESTS FOR 790 00:27:00,001 --> 00:27:01,000 ONE-MINUTE SPEECHES? 791 00:27:01,001 --> 00:27:03,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 792 00:27:03,001 --> 00:27:04,000 GENTLEMAN FROM ARIZONA RISE? 793 00:27:04,001 --> 00:27:05,000 >> I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT 794 00:27:05,001 --> 00:27:07,000 TODAY FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE 795 00:27:07,001 --> 00:27:08,000 BUSINESS AND ANY SPECI ORDERS 796 00:27:08,001 --> 00:27:10,000 HERETOFORE ENTER 797 00:27:10,001 --> 00:27:11,000 FOLLOWING MEMBERS MAY BE 798 00:27:11,001 --> 00:27:13,000 PERMITTED TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE, 799 00:27:13,001 --> 00:27:14,000 AND INCLUDE THEREIN EXTRANEOUS 800 00:27:14,001 --> 00:27:16,000 MATERIAL. 801 00:27:16,001 --> 00:27:18,000 MR. POE ON MAY 14 FOR FIVE MINUTES. 802 00:27:18,001 --> 00:27:20,000 MR. JONES ON MAY 14 FOR FIVE MINUTES. 803 00:27:20,001 --> 00:27:21,000 MR. NEUGEBAUER TODAY FOR FIVE 804 00:27:21,001 --> 00:27:23,000 MINUTES. 805 00:27:23,001 --> 00:27:26,000 MR. ADERHOLT TODAY FORIVE MINUTES. 806 00:27:26,001 --> 00:27:28,000 MR. BURTON ON MAY 12, 13, 14 FOR 807 00:27:28,001 --> 00:27:30,000 FIVE MINUTES EACH. 808 00:27:30,001 --> 00:27:33,000 MYSELF, TODAY FOR FIVE MINUTES. 809 00:27:33,001 --> 00:27:36,000 AND MR. MORAN ON MAY 12, 13, AND 810 00:27:36,001 --> 00:27:37,000 14 FOR FIVE MINUTES. 811 00:27:37,001 --> 00:27:40,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 812 00:27:40,001 --> 00:27:43,000 OBJECTION. 813 00:27:43,001 --> 00:27:44,000 THE GENTLELADY FROM FLORIDA. 814 00:27:44,001 --> 00:27:45,000 MS. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 815 00:27:45,001 --> 00:27:46,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT 816 00:27:46,001 --> 00:27:47,000 TODAY FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE 817 00:27:47,001 --> 00:27:51,000 BUSINESS AND ANY SPECIAL ORDERS 818 00:27:51,001 --> 00:27:52,000 HERETOFORE ENTERED INTO, THE 819 00:27:52,001 --> 00:27:53,000 FOLLOWING MEMBERS MAY BE 820 00:27:53,001 --> 00:27:54,000 PERMITTED TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE 821 00:27:54,001 --> 00:27:55,000 FOR FIVE MINUTES, REVISE AND EXTEND THEIR REMARKS, AND 822 00:27:55,001 --> 00:27:58,000 INCLUDE THEREIN EXTRANEOUS 823 00:27:58,001 --> 00:27:59,000 MATERIAL. 824 00:27:59,001 --> 00:28:00,000 MS. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. MS. WOOLSEY. 825 00:28:00,001 --> 00:28:01,000 MR. BAIRD. 826 00:28:01,001 --> 00:28:02,000 MR. DEFAZIO. 827 00:28:02,001 --> 00:28:03,000 MS. MOORE. 828 00:28:03,001 --> 00:28:05,000 MISSP KAPTUR. 829 00:28:05,001 --> 00:28:06,000 MISS PING GREE. 830 00:28:06,001 --> 00:28:07,000 MR. SCHIFF. 831 00:28:07,001 --> 00:28:08,000 AND MS. JACKSON LEE. 832 00:28:08,001 --> 00:28:11,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 833 00:28:11,001 --> 00:28:12,000 OBJECTION. 834 00:28:12,001 --> 00:28:14,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 835 00:28:14,001 --> 00:28:21,000 NTLEWOMAN FROM ARIZONA RISE? 836 00:28:21,001 --> 00:28:22,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION. 837 00:28:22,001 --> 00:28:24,000 MRS. KIRKPATRICK: I'M HONORED 838 00:28:24,001 --> 00:28:28,000 TODAY TO BE HERE TO 839 00:28:28,001 --> 00:28:29,000 MAY AS NATIONAL JEWISH AMERICAN 840 00:28:29,001 --> 00:28:32,000 -- 841 00:28:32,001 --> 00:28:34,000 MS. GIFFORDS: IN 165412323 842 00:28:34,001 --> 00:28:35,000 JEWISH REFUGEES TRAVELED FROM 843 00:28:35,001 --> 00:28:37,000 BRAZIL TO PRESENT DAY NEW YORK 844 00:28:37,001 --> 00:28:39,000 AND FOUNDED THE FIRST JEWISH 845 00:28:39,001 --> 00:28:41,000 COMMUNAL SELLLEMENT IN NORTH AMERICA. 846 00:28:41,001 --> 00:28:44,000 IT WASN'T UNTIL 100 YEARS 847 00:28:44,001 --> 00:28:45,000 EARLIER THAT SPANISH INWHICH 848 00:28:45,001 --> 00:28:47,000 SIGNIFICANCE DESCENDED UPON THE 849 00:28:47,001 --> 00:28:50,000 INHABITANTS OF NEW SPAIN WHERE 850 00:28:50,001 --> 00:28:52,000 JEWS DECIDED TO FLEE ARIZONA AND 851 00:28:52,001 --> 00:28:54,000 NEW MEXICO INTO TEXAS. 852 00:28:54,001 --> 00:28:55,000 THAT MEANT THE BEGINNING OF JEWS 853 00:28:55,001 --> 00:28:56,000 IN THE SOUTHWEST. 854 00:28:56,001 --> 00:28:57,000 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN SOUTHERN 855 00:28:57,001 --> 00:28:58,000 ARIZONA TODAY IS STRONG AND 856 00:28:58,001 --> 00:29:00,000 VIBRANT AND WE HAVE TREMENDOUS 857 00:29:00,001 --> 00:29:02,000 AMOUNT OF HISTORY. 858 00:29:02,001 --> 00:29:04,000 DURING ARIZONA'S TERRITORIAL 859 00:29:04,001 --> 00:29:07,000 YEARS, HENRY, A JEWISH 860 00:29:07,001 --> 00:29:09,000 IMMIGRANTS FROM EUROPE, 861 00:29:09,001 --> 00:29:11,000 IMMIGRATED FROM SOUTHERN ARIZONA 862 00:29:11,001 --> 00:29:13,000 SPEARHEADED THE COPER MINING 863 00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:15,000 BUSINESS AND BIZ BYE TODAY IS A 864 00:29:15,001 --> 00:29:17,000 LEGACY OF HIS. 865 00:29:17,001 --> 00:29:20,000 ANOTHER PIONEER, A JEWISH 866 00:29:20,001 --> 00:29:21,000 BANKER, FOUNDED VALLEY NATIONAL BANK. 867 00:29:21,001 --> 00:29:22,000 THIS WEEK WE ARE ALSO 868 00:29:22,001 --> 00:29:24,000 RECOGNIZING THE 61ST ANNIVERSARY 869 00:29:24,001 --> 00:29:25,000 OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. 870 00:29:25,001 --> 00:29:28,000 AND MY TRIPS TO ISRAEL I HAVE 871 00:29:28,001 --> 00:29:30,000 HAD A CHANCE TO WITNESS THE 872 00:29:30,001 --> 00:29:31,000 RESILIENCY AND RESOLVE OF ITS 873 00:29:31,001 --> 00:29:32,000 CITIZENS. 874 00:29:32,001 --> 00:29:33,000 SO I'M PROUD, MR. SPEAKER 875 00:29:33,001 --> 00:29:35,000 TORQUES JOIN WH JEWS OF THE 876 00:29:35,001 --> 00:29:36,000 SOUTHWEST TO CELEBRATE OUR 877 00:29:36,001 --> 00:29:38,000 HERITAGE AROUND THE WORLD AS 878 00:29:38,001 --> 00:29:39,000 WELL TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL'S 61ST 879 00:29:39,001 --> 00:29:41,000 ANNIVERSARY. 880 00:29:41,001 --> 00:29:42,000 THANK 881 00:29:42,001 --> 00:29:48,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 882 00:29:48,001 --> 00:29:49,000 TIME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 883 00:29:49,001 --> 00:29:52,000 GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK IS 884 00:29:52,001 --> 00:29:54,000 RECOGNIZED. 885 00:29:54,001 --> 00:29:55,000 >> I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO 886 00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:56,000 ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE 887 00:29:56,001 --> 00:29:57,000 MINUTE. THSPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 888 00:29:57,001 --> 00:29:58,000 OBJECTION. 889 00:29:58,001 --> 00:30:00,000 >> 890 00:30:00,001 --> 00:30:01,000 TODAY I RISE IN RECOGNITION OF 891 00:30:01,001 --> 00:30:03,000 NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION'S 892 00:30:03,001 --> 00:30:05,000 NATIONAL TEACHER DAY. 893 00:30:05,001 --> 00:30:07,000 FEW PROFESSIONALS TOUCH AS MANY 894 00:30:07,001 --> 00:30:08,000 LIVES AS TEACHERS DO. 895 00:30:08,001 --> 00:30:09,000 THEY PROVIDE US WITH THE 896 00:30:09,001 --> 00:30:11,000 KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS WE NEED TO 897 00:30:11,001 --> 00:30:12,000 SUCCEED IN LIFE AND THEIR 898 00:30:12,001 --> 00:30:13,000 DEDICATION DESERVES NATIONAL 899 00:30:13,001 --> 00:30:15,000 RECOGNITION. 900 00:30:15,001 --> 00:30:16,000 THAT IS WHY I HAVE INTRODUCED 901 00:30:16,001 --> 00:30:17,000 LEGISLATION AGAIN THIS YEAR 902 00:30:17,001 --> 00:30:19,000 CALLING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF 903 00:30:19,001 --> 00:30:21,000 AN OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED 904 00:30:21,001 --> 00:30:22,000 NATIONAL TEACHER DAY. 905 00:30:22,001 --> 00:30:23,000 THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN IS 906 00:30:23,001 --> 00:30:24,000 CRITICAL TO THE FUTURE SUCCESS 907 00:30:24,001 --> 00:30:26,000 OF OUR COUNTRY. 908 00:30:26,001 --> 00:30:28,000 AND DESPITE LIMITED COMPENSATION 909 00:30:28,001 --> 00:30:31,000 AND INCREASINGLY HIGH 910 00:30:31,001 --> 00:30:32,000 EXPECTATIONS, OUR TEACHERS RISE 911 00:30:32,001 --> 00:30:33,000 TO THE CHALLENGE EACH AND EVERY 912 00:30:33,001 --> 00:30:34,000 DAY. 913 00:30:34,001 --> 00:30:35,000 TEACH REMEMBERS A CRITICAL 914 00:30:35,001 --> 00:30:37,000 COMPONENT TO INCREASING OUR 915 00:30:37,001 --> 00:30:38,000 GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS AND ONCE 916 00:30:38,001 --> 00:30:40,000 AGAIN ESTABLISHING OUR COUNTRY 917 00:30:40,001 --> 00:30:41,000 AS A WORLD LEADER IN SCIENCE, 918 00:30:41,001 --> 00:30:43,000 MATH, AND OTHER FIELDS. 919 00:30:43,001 --> 00:30:45,000 MY MOTHER WAS A PUBLIC SCHL 920 00:30:45,001 --> 00:30:47,000 TEACHER AND I KNOW HOW -- THE 921 00:30:47,001 --> 00:30:48,000 HARD WORK SHE PUT IN TO ENSURE 922 00:30:48,001 --> 00:30:50,000 EVERY ONE OF HER STUDENTS WAS 923 00:30:50,001 --> 00:30:51,000 PREPARED TO SUCCEED IN THE 924 00:30:51,001 --> 00:30:52,000 CLASSROOM AND IN LIFE. 925 00:30:52,001 --> 00:30:53,000 TO ALL THE TEACHERS OF SOUTH 926 00:30:53,001 --> 00:30:54,000 FLORIDA AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY, 927 00:30:54,001 --> 00:30:59,000 THANK YOU. 928 00:30:59,001 --> 00:31:00,000 MR. SP 929 00:31:00,001 --> 00:31:03,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 930 00:31:03,001 --> 00:31:05,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 931 00:31:05,001 --> 00:31:08,000 CHAIR LAYS BEFORE THE HOUSE THE 932 00:31:08,001 --> 00:31:10,000 FOLLOWING PERSONAL REQUESTS. 933 00:31:10,001 --> 00:31:12,000 THE CLERK: LEAVES OF ABSENCE 934 00:31:12,001 --> 00:31:13,000 REQUESTED FOR MRS. CAPPS OF 935 00:31:13,001 --> 00:31:15,000 CALIFORNIA FOR TODAY. 936 00:31:15,001 --> 00:31:16,000 MR. HOLT OF NEW JERSEY FOR TODAY. 937 00:31:16,001 --> 00:31:18,000 AND MR. HELLER OF NEVADA FOR 938 00:31:18,001 --> 00:31:19,000 DAY. 939 00:31:19,001 --> 00:31:22,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 940 00:31:22,001 --> 00:31:28,000 GRANTED. 941 00:31:28,001 --> 00:31:30,000 . 942 00:31:30,001 --> 00:31:32,000 UNDER THE SPEAKER'S ANNOUNCED 943 00:31:32,001 --> 00:31:34,000 POLICY OF JANUARY 6, 2009 AND 944 00:31:34,001 --> 00:31:36,000 UNDER A PREVIOUS ORDER OF THE 945 00:31:36,001 --> 00:31:37,000 HOUSE, THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS ARE 946 00:31:37,001 --> 00:31:39,000 RECOGNIZED FOR FIVE MINUTES 947 00:31:39,001 --> 00:31:44,000 EACH. 948 00:31:44,001 --> 00:31:47,000 THE GENTLELADY FROM FLORIDA. 949 00:31:47,001 --> 00:31:48,000 SHE'S RECOGNIZED FOR FIVE 950 00:31:48,001 --> 00:31:49,000 MINUTES. 951 00:31:49,001 --> 00:31:50,000 MS. WASS 952 00:31:50,001 --> 00:31:51,000 YOU, MR. S 953 00:31:51,001 --> 00:31:54,000 MR. SPEAKER, I RISE TO 954 00:31:54,001 --> 00:31:55,000 COMMEMORATE THE 4TH ANNUAL 955 00:31:55,001 --> 00:31:57,000 JEWISH HERITAGE MONTH WHICH 956 00:31:57,001 --> 00:31:59,000 TAKES PLACE IN COMMUNITIES EACH 957 00:31:59,001 --> 00:32:00,000 MAY. 958 00:32:00,001 --> 00:32:01,000 IT PROMOTES AWARENESS OF THE 959 00:32:01,001 --> 00:32:04,000 CONTRIBUTIONS THAT AMERICAN JEWS 960 00:32:04,001 --> 00:32:06,000 HAVE MADE TO THE FABRIC OF 961 00:32:06,001 --> 00:32:07,000 AMERICAN LIFE FROM TECHNOLOGY IN 962 00:32:07,001 --> 00:32:09,000 LITERATURE, POLITICS AND 963 00:32:09,001 --> 00:32:12,000 MEDICINE. AS WE ARE AWARE, THE FOUNDATION 964 00:32:12,001 --> 00:32:14,000 OF OUR COUNTRY IS BUILT UPON THE 965 00:32:14,001 --> 00:32:15,000 STRENGTH OF OUR UNIQUE CULTURES 966 00:32:15,001 --> 00:32:18,000 AND BACKGROUND. 967 00:32:18,001 --> 00:32:19,000 WHILE OUR DIVERSITY IS AMERICA'S 968 00:32:19,001 --> 00:32:21,000 STRENGTH, IGNORANCE ABOUT THE 969 00:32:21,001 --> 00:32:22,000 CULTURE, TRADITIONS AND 970 00:32:22,001 --> 00:32:24,000 ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE JEWISH 971 00:32:24,001 --> 00:32:25,000 PEOPLE ARE STILL PREVALENT. 972 00:32:25,001 --> 00:32:27,000 JEWS MAKE UP 2% OF OUR NATION'S 973 00:32:27,001 --> 00:32:29,000 POPULATION AND THEREFORE MOST 974 00:32:29,001 --> 00:32:31,000 AMERICANS HAVE HAD FEW 975 00:32:31,001 --> 00:32:32,000 INTERACTIONS WITH JEWS AND OUR 976 00:32:32,001 --> 00:32:34,000 TRADITIONS. 977 00:32:34,001 --> 00:32:36,000 I PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED THIS 978 00:32:36,001 --> 00:32:38,000 WHEN I WAS A STUDENT IN THE DORMS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF 979 00:32:38,001 --> 00:32:39,000 FLORIDA. 980 00:32:39,001 --> 00:32:40,000 WHILE AT SCHOOL, A FELLOW 981 00:32:40,001 --> 00:32:44,000 STUDENT NOTICED MY NAME AND 982 00:32:44,001 --> 00:32:46,000 SAID, WOW, YOU'RE JEWISH. 983 00:32:46,001 --> 00:32:48,000 I'VE SEEN PICTURES BUT NEVER MET 984 00:32:48,001 --> 00:32:50,000 A REAL ONE. 985 00:32:50,001 --> 00:32:51,000 THE LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF THE 986 00:32:51,001 --> 00:32:54,000 JEWISH PEOPLE AND OUR ROLE LEADS 987 00:32:54,001 --> 00:32:55,000 TO IGNORANCE, WHICH CONIBUTES 988 00:32:55,001 --> 00:32:58,000 TO STEREOTYPES AND PREJUDICE. 989 00:32:58,001 --> 00:32:59,000 ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU 990 00:32:59,001 --> 00:33:02,000 OF INVESTIGATION MOST RECENT 991 00:33:02,001 --> 00:33:07,000 HATE SCRIMES STATISTIC REPORT, 992 00:33:07,001 --> 00:33:08,000 64% CRIMES STEM FROM ANTI-JEWISH 993 00:33:08,001 --> 00:33:10,000 PREJUDICE. 994 00:33:10,001 --> 00:33:11,000 DUE TO A LACK OF UERSTANDING, 995 00:33:11,001 --> 00:33:17,000 SOME AMERICANS PERCEIVE JEWS AS 996 00:33:17,001 --> 00:33:19,000 ONLY A RELIGION WHEN IN REALITY 997 00:33:19,001 --> 00:33:21,000 IT'S A TRADITION THAT DATES BACK 998 00:33:21,001 --> 00:33:22,000 4,000 YEARS. 999 00:33:22,001 --> 00:33:24,000 THIS IS WHY COMMUNITIES ACROSS 1000 00:33:24,001 --> 00:33:27,000 THE COUNTRY HAVE COME TOGETHER 1001 00:33:27,001 --> 00:33:29,000 TO CELEBRATE JEWISH AMERICAN 1002 00:33:29,001 --> 00:33:30,000 HERITAGE MONDAY. 1003 00:33:30,001 --> 00:33:31,000 THEY APPROACHED ME TO HONOR THE 1004 00:33:31,001 --> 00:33:33,000 CONTRIBUTION OF AMERICAN JEWS 1005 00:33:33,001 --> 00:33:34,000 WITH A DESIGNATED MONTH EACH 1006 00:33:34,001 --> 00:33:38,000 EAR. 1007 00:33:38,001 --> 00:33:39,000 AS THE CONCEPT GAINED MOMENTUM, 1008 00:33:39,001 --> 00:33:43,000 250 COLLEAGUES HAVE JOINED ME 1009 00:33:43,001 --> 00:33:45,000 URGING THE PRESIDENT TO ISSUE A 1010 00:33:45,001 --> 00:33:46,000 PROCLAMATION FOR THIS MONTH. 1011 00:33:46,001 --> 00:33:48,000 SENATOR SPECTER LED THE EFFORT 1012 00:33:48,001 --> 00:33:49,000 AND TOGETHER THE HOUSE AND 1013 00:33:49,001 --> 00:33:52,000 SENATE PASSED RESOLUTIONS 1014 00:33:52,001 --> 00:33:54,000 SUPPORTING THE CREATION OF 1015 00:33:54,001 --> 00:33:55,000 JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH. 1016 00:33:55,001 --> 00:33:57,000 IN MAY, 2006, WE CELEBRATED THIS 1017 00:33:57,001 --> 00:33:58,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME AND BEEN 1018 00:33:58,001 --> 00:34:01,000 CELEBRATING EACH MAY SINCE THEN. 1019 00:34:01,001 --> 00:34:03,000 THE MONTH OF MAY INTRODUCES 1020 00:34:03,001 --> 00:34:04,000 JEWISH CULTURE TO THE ENTIRE 1021 00:34:04,001 --> 00:34:06,000 COUNTRY. 1022 00:34:06,001 --> 00:34:09,000 BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND WOMEN'S 1023 00:34:09,001 --> 00:34:11,000 HISTORY MONTH, JEWISH AMERICAN 1024 00:34:11,001 --> 00:34:12,000 HERITAGE MONTH RECOGNIZES 1025 00:34:12,001 --> 00:34:16,000 CONTRIBUTIONS AMERICAN JEWS HAVE 1026 00:34:16,001 --> 00:34:17,000 MADE IN THE UNITED STATES OVER 1027 00:34:17,001 --> 00:34:19,000 THE LAST 253 YEARS. 1028 00:34:19,001 --> 00:34:21,000 IT IS MY HOPE BY PROVIDING THE 1029 00:34:21,001 --> 00:34:22,000 FRAMEWORK OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO 1030 00:34:22,001 --> 00:34:26,000 OUR NATION, WE WILL BE ABLE TO 1031 00:34:26,001 --> 00:34:28,000 REDUCE IGNORANCE THAT LEADS TO 1032 00:34:28,001 --> 00:34:30,000 ANTI-SEMITISM. 1033 00:34:30,001 --> 00:34:31,000 ONE WAY IT COUNTERS THESE 1034 00:34:31,001 --> 00:34:32,000 PREJUDICE IS PROVIDI EDUCATORS 1035 00:34:32,001 --> 00:34:34,000 THE OPPORTUNITY TO INCLUDE 1036 00:34:34,001 --> 00:34:37,000 AMERICAN JEWS IN DISCUSSIONS OF 1037 00:34:37,001 --> 00:34:38,000 HISTORY AS WELL AS HIGHLIGHTING 1038 00:34:38,001 --> 00:34:41,000 THE LEADERSHIP OF THE MEMBERS OF 1039 00:34:41,001 --> 00:34:42,000 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY. 1040 00:34:42,001 --> 00:34:45,000 FOR EXAMPLE, IT MIGHT SURPRISE 1041 00:34:45,001 --> 00:34:46,000 MANY TO LEARN IT WAS AN AMERICAN 1042 00:34:46,001 --> 00:34:50,000 JEW, IRVING BERLIN WROTE THE 1043 00:34:50,001 --> 00:34:51,000 LYRICS TO THE SONG "GOD BLESS 1044 00:34:51,001 --> 00:34:52,000 AMERICA." 1045 00:34:52,001 --> 00:34:54,000 AS THE FOUNDATIONS WERE IMPACTED 1046 00:34:54,001 --> 00:34:59,000 BY JEWS, A JEWISH MAN WAS ONE OF 1047 00:34:59,001 --> 00:35:05,000 THE LARGEST FINANCIERS AND RAB 1048 00:35:05,001 --> 00:35:08,000 EYE PRINZ WAS ON THE PODIUM 1049 00:35:08,001 --> 00:35:09,000 BEFORE DR. KING DELIVERED HIS "I 1050 00:35:09,001 --> 00:35:11,000 HAVE A DREAM SPEECH." 1051 00:35:11,001 --> 00:35:13,000 THIS MONTH HAS BEEN PACKED WITH 1052 00:35:13,001 --> 00:35:14,000 PROGRAMS CELEBRATING THE 1053 00:35:14,001 --> 00:35:17,000 CONTRIBUTIONS OF AMERICAN JEWRY 1054 00:35:17,001 --> 00:35:20,000 TO OUR COUNTRY WITH SPEAKERS AND 1055 00:35:20,001 --> 00:35:22,000 KNOW VAY. 1056 00:35:22,001 --> 00:35:24,000 THE UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITIES 1057 00:35:24,001 --> 00:35:26,000 AND THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF 1058 00:35:26,001 --> 00:35:27,000 GAITER WASHINGTON WILL BE 1059 00:35:27,001 --> 00:35:29,000 HOSTING A RECEPTION TO MEMBERS 1060 00:35:29,001 --> 00:35:30,000 OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY. 1061 00:35:30,001 --> 00:35:33,000 K STREET WILL BE HOSTING A 1062 00:35:33,001 --> 00:35:34,000 RECEPTION TO CELEBRATE MAY WITH 1063 00:35:34,001 --> 00:35:35,000 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, THEIR STAFF 1064 00:35:35,001 --> 00:35:37,000 AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY. 1065 00:35:37,001 --> 00:35:39,000 BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. 1066 00:35:39,001 --> 00:35:40,000 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND THE 1067 00:35:40,001 --> 00:35:42,000 NATIONAL ARCHIVES WILL BE 1068 00:35:42,001 --> 00:35:43,000 HOSTING LECTURES, EXHIBITS AND 1069 00:35:43,001 --> 00:35:44,000 DISCUSSIONS ABOUT JEWISH 1070 00:35:44,001 --> 00:35:46,000 CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICA. 1071 00:35:46,001 --> 00:35:48,000 IN MY HOME STATE OF FLORIDA, 1072 00:35:48,001 --> 00:35:49,000 THERE WILL BE A CELEBRATION OF 1073 00:35:49,001 --> 00:35:51,000 JEWISH CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 1074 00:35:51,001 --> 00:35:53,000 CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE 1075 00:35:53,001 --> 00:35:55,000 MAJOR LEAGUE FLORIDA MARLINS 1076 00:35:55,001 --> 00:35:58,000 BASEBALL TEAM WILL OFFER A GAME 1077 00:35:58,001 --> 00:35:59,000 WITH JEWISH MUSIC IN BETWEEN 1078 00:35:59,001 --> 00:36:00,000 INNINGS. 1079 00:36:00,001 --> 00:36:05,000 CINCINNATI WILL BE HOSTING 1080 00:36:05,001 --> 00:36:06,000 LECTURES INCLUDING LINCOLN'S 1081 00:36:06,001 --> 00:36:09,000 RELATIONSHIP WITH JEWS. 1082 00:36:09,001 --> 00:36:10,000 AND WE ALL KNOW HOW MUC 1083 00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:12,000 FOOD. 1084 00:36:12,001 --> 00:36:14,000 EVENTS ARE SCHEDULED TO OCCUR IN 1085 00:36:14,001 --> 00:36:15,000 NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA, TEXAS AND 1086 00:36:15,001 --> 00:36:16,000 OTHER STATES AROUND THE COUNTRY. 1087 00:36:16,001 --> 00:36:18,000 MR. SPEAKER, WE HAVE COME A LONG 1088 00:36:18,001 --> 00:36:21,000 WAY IN RECENT YEARS TO PROMOTE 1089 00:36:21,001 --> 00:36:22,000 APPRECIATION FOR THE FABRIC OF 1090 00:36:22,001 --> 00:36:23,000 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 1091 00:36:23,001 --> 00:36:24,000 IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO 1092 00:36:24,001 --> 00:36:26,000 CONTINUE THIS EDUCATION. 1093 00:36:26,001 --> 00:36:28,000 IF WE AS A NATION ARE TO PREPARE 1094 00:36:28,001 --> 00:36:30,000 OUR CHILDREN FOR THE CHALLENGES 1095 00:36:30,001 --> 00:36:32,000 THAT LIE AHEAD, THEN TEACHING 1096 00:36:32,001 --> 00:36:33,000 DIVERSITY IS A FUNDAMENTAL PART 1097 00:36:33,001 --> 00:36:34,000 OF THAT PROMISE. 1098 00:36:34,001 --> 00:36:36,000 TOGETHER, WE CAN HELP A-THIS 1099 00:36:36,001 --> 00:36:38,000 GOAL OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE 1100 00:36:38,001 --> 00:36:39,000 CELEBRATION OF JEWISH AMERICAN 1101 00:36:39,001 --> 00:36:41,000 HERITAGE MONTH. 1102 00:36:41,001 --> 00:36:42,000 I CALL ON ALL AMERICANS TO 1103 00:36:42,001 --> 00:36:44,000 OBSERVE THIS SPECIAL MONTH BY 1104 00:36:44,001 --> 00:36:45,000 CELEBRATIN 1105 00:36:45,001 --> 00:36:48,000 CONTRIBUTIONS OF JEWISH CULTURE 1106 00:36:48,001 --> 00:36:50,000 THROUGHOUT OUR NATION'S HISTORY. THANK YOU. 1107 00:36:50,001 --> 00:36:51,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 1108 00:36:51,001 --> 00:36:53,000 TIME. 1109 00:36:53,001 --> 00:36:54,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 1110 00:36:54,001 --> 00:36:56,000 CONGRESSMAN FROM TEXAS IS 1111 00:36:56,001 --> 00:36:57,000 RECOGNIZED. 1112 00:36:57,001 --> 00:36:59,000 MR. NEUGEBAUER 1113 00:36:59,001 --> 00:37:00,000 PROUD TO RISE TODAY TO 1114 00:37:00,001 --> 00:37:02,000 CONGRATULATE SOME CHAMPIONS IN 1115 00:37:02,001 --> 00:37:05,000 THE 19TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF TEXAS. 1116 00:37:05,001 --> 00:37:08,000 I CONGRALATE THE GIRL'S 1117 00:37:08,001 --> 00:37:11,000 BASKETBALL TEAM IN SUDAN HIGH 1118 00:37:11,001 --> 00:37:12,000 SCHOOL FOR WINNING THE CLASS A 1119 00:37:12,001 --> 00:37:14,000 CHAMPIONSHIP IN 2009. 1120 00:37:14,001 --> 00:37:16,000 THE NETS FINISHED THE SEASON 1121 00:37:16,001 --> 00:37:18,000 WITH 35 WINS AND ONLY FIVE 1122 00:37:18,001 --> 00:37:19,000 LOSSES. 1123 00:37:19,001 --> 00:37:30,000 THE CHAMPIONSHIP SQUAD INCLUDES 1124 00:37:30,001 --> 00:37:35,000 SENIORS AND SOPHOMORES. 1125 00:37:35,001 --> 00:37:40,000 AND A -- TWO FRESHMAN LED BY 1126 00:37:40,001 --> 00:37:42,000 THEIR COACHINGS. 1127 00:37:42,001 --> 00:37:44,000 FOLLOWING THE LAST YEAR STATE 1128 00:37:44,001 --> 00:37:46,000 FINALS, THEY DEMONSTRATED THEIR 1129 00:37:46,001 --> 00:37:48,000 HARD WORK AND DETERMINATION 1130 00:37:48,001 --> 00:37:50,000 DURING THE OFFSEASON. 1131 00:37:50,001 --> 00:37:55,000 THEY FOCUSED AND IT PAID OFF IN 1132 00:37:55,001 --> 00:37:58,000 A 71-30 VICTORY, THE THIRD 1133 00:37:58,001 --> 00:37:59,000 LARGEST MARGIN IN CLASS 1 A 1134 00:37:59,001 --> 00:38:02,000 CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY. 1135 00:38:02,001 --> 00:38:03,000 IT EARNED HIS FOURTH STATE TITLE 1136 00:38:03,001 --> 00:38:04,000 AND ITS FIRST. 1137 00:38:04,001 --> 00:38:06,000 I APPLAUD ITS HARD WORK AND 1138 00:38:06,001 --> 00:38:08,000 TRADITION OF SUCCESS WITH GREAT 1139 00:38:08,001 --> 00:38:09,000 SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY, THE 1140 00:38:09,001 --> 00:38:13,000 TEAM PROVED ITSELF AS THE BEST 1141 00:38:13,001 --> 00:38:16,000 BASKETBALL TEAM IN CLASS 1 A. 1142 00:38:16,001 --> 00:38:19,000 THEY EXEMPLIFY THE SPIRIT AND 1143 00:38:19,001 --> 00:38:25,000 SUCCESS ON AND OFF THE COURT. 1144 00:38:25,001 --> 00:38:30,000 I CONGAT LATE HIGH SCHOOL 1145 00:38:30,001 --> 00:38:31,000 FOOTBALL TEAM FOR DEFEATING 1146 00:38:31,001 --> 00:38:33,000 KIRBYVILLE. 1147 00:38:33,001 --> 00:38:35,000 ESTABLISHING A TRADITION OF SUCCESS, THE MULES HAVE MADE 1148 00:38:35,001 --> 00:38:37,000 THEIR STATE PLAYOFFS NINE OUT OF 1149 00:38:37,001 --> 00:38:39,000 THE LAST 10 YEARS UNDER THE HEAD 1150 00:38:39,001 --> 00:38:41,000 COACH DAVID WOODS. 1151 00:38:41,001 --> 00:38:43,000 IN 2008, THE MULES DEMONSTRATED 1152 00:38:43,001 --> 00:38:45,000 THEIR TALENT AND DETERMINATION 1153 00:38:45,001 --> 00:38:46,000 BY ENDING THE FOOTBALL SEASON 1154 00:38:46,001 --> 00:38:51,000 WITH A PERFECT 15-0 RECORD. 1155 00:38:51,001 --> 00:38:54,000 THIS IS THE FIRST STATE FOOTBALL 1156 00:38:54,001 --> 00:38:57,000 STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. 1157 00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:58,000 THERE WAS 230 YARDS IN THIS 1158 00:38:58,001 --> 00:39:00,000 YEAR'S CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. 1159 00:39:00,001 --> 00:39:02,000 IN ANOTHER EXCEPTIONAL 1160 00:39:02,001 --> 00:39:05,000 CHAMPIONSHIP, LANE WOOD RAN FOR 1161 00:39:05,001 --> 00:39:06,000 160 YARDS AND TWO TOUCHDOWNS. 1162 00:39:06,001 --> 00:39:08,000 THEY SCORED 4 CONSECUTIVE 1163 00:39:08,001 --> 00:39:10,000 TOUCHDOWNS TO ACHIEVE A FINAL 1164 00:39:10,001 --> 00:39:11,000 SCORE OF 48-26. 1165 00:39:11,001 --> 00:39:14,000 I APPLAUD THE MULES HARD WORK 1166 00:39:14,001 --> 00:39:16,000 AND RESILIENCE THROUGH THE 2008 1167 00:39:16,001 --> 00:39:19,000 AND 2009 SEASON. 1168 00:39:19,001 --> 00:39:22,000 THE TEAM PROVED ITSELF AS THE 1169 00:39:22,001 --> 00:39:24,000 BEST 2A FOOTBALL TEAM. 1170 00:39:24,001 --> 00:39:28,000 THE MULES CONTINUE TO EXEMPLIFY 1171 00:39:28,001 --> 00:39:37,000 THE SPIRIT AND SUCCESS ON AND 1172 00:39:37,001 --> 00:39:38,000 OFF THE FIELD. 1173 00:39:38,001 --> 00:39:39,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: MS. 1174 00:39:39,001 --> 00:39:47,000 WOOLSEY OF CALIFORNIA IS 1175 00:39:47,001 --> 00:39:49,000 RECOGNIZED. 1176 00:39:49,001 --> 00:39:51,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION. 1177 00:39:51,001 --> 00:39:53,000 >> I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO 1178 00:39:53,001 --> 00:39:57,000 ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR FIVE 1179 00:39:57,001 --> 00:39:59,000 MINUTES, REVISE AND EXTEND. 1180 00:39:59,001 --> 00:40:02,000 MR. BAIRD: MR. SPEAKER, I RISE 1181 00:40:02,001 --> 00:40:04,000 TODAY TO PAY TRIBUTE TO BILLY 1182 00:40:04,001 --> 00:40:06,000 SMITH, A YOUNG MAN WHO LOST HIS 1183 00:40:06,001 --> 00:40:08,000 LIFE ON TUESDAY, MAY 5, THIS 1184 00:40:08,001 --> 00:40:10,000 PAST TUESDAY, IN THE COURSE OF 1185 00:40:10,001 --> 00:40:12,000 HIS DUTIES AT THE ACARE YOUSE 1186 00:40:12,001 --> 00:40:15,000 UNDERSEA RESEARCH STATION. 1187 00:40:15,001 --> 00:40:18,000 HE WOULD BE MISSED BY HIS 1188 00:40:18,001 --> 00:40:19,000 FRIENDS, FAMILY AND COLLEAGUES. 1189 00:40:19,001 --> 00:40:24,000 BILLY'S LIFE WAS TIED TO THE SEA 1190 00:40:24,001 --> 00:40:25,000 THE GULF COAST IN PANAMA, CITY, 1191 00:40:25,001 --> 00:40:28,000 FLORIDA. 1192 00:40:28,001 --> 00:40:30,000 HE SERVED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY HOSPITAL. 1193 00:40:30,001 --> 00:40:32,000 FOR YEARS HE CARED FOR THE 1194 00:40:32,001 --> 00:40:36,000 HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF HIS 1195 00:40:36,001 --> 00:40:38,000 HE FOUND HIMSELF AT HOME BACK IN 1196 00:40:38,001 --> 00:40:40,000 THE WATER TRAINING AT FLORIDA 1197 00:40:40,001 --> 00:40:41,000 STATE UNIVERSITY'S UNDERWATER 1198 00:40:41,001 --> 00:40:43,000 CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION 1199 00:40:43,001 --> 00:40:44,000 PROGRAM FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC 1200 00:40:44,001 --> 00:40:48,000 AND SURFACE SUPPLY DIVING. 1201 00:40:48,001 --> 00:40:50,000 EVENTUALLY, HIS PATH LED HIM TO 1202 00:40:50,001 --> 00:40:54,000 NOAAA RESEARCH CENTER. 1203 00:40:54,001 --> 00:40:55,000 IT COMBINED THE ELEMENTS FOR HIS 1204 00:40:55,001 --> 00:40:58,000 PASSION. 1205 00:40:58,001 --> 00:40:59,000 LOCATED OFF THE COAST OF KEY 1206 00:40:59,001 --> 00:41:02,000 LARGO, FLORIDA, THE UNDERWATER 1207 00:41:02,001 --> 00:41:04,000 LABORATORY IS DEDICATED TO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND TRAINING 1208 00:41:04,001 --> 00:41:05,000 MISSIONS. 1209 00:41:05,001 --> 00:41:07,000 IT IS THE ONLY PERMANENT 1210 00:41:07,001 --> 00:41:08,000 UNDERWATER LABORATORY IN THE 1211 00:41:08,001 --> 00:41:09,000 WORLD AND ITS FACILITIES ARE 1212 00:41:09,001 --> 00:41:12,000 USED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NASA 1213 00:41:12,001 --> 00:41:13,000 AND THE NAVY AND COUNTLESS 1214 00:41:13,001 --> 00:41:16,000 SCIENTISTS AROUND THE WORLD TO 1215 00:41:16,001 --> 00:41:19,000 TRAIN ASTRONAUTS, DIVERS AND 1216 00:41:19,001 --> 00:41:22,000 DEVELOP NEW TECHNOLOGY. 1217 00:41:22,001 --> 00:41:24,000 AQUARIUS AND ITS TEAM HAVE 1218 00:41:24,001 --> 00:41:26,000 CONDUCTED MORE THAN 90 MISSIONS 1219 00:41:26,001 --> 00:41:27,000 WITH NO SIGNIFICANT PRIOR 1220 00:41:27,001 --> 00:41:28,000 ACCIDENTS. 1221 00:41:28,001 --> 00:41:32,000 THE CONTRIBUTION TO OCEAN 1222 00:41:32,001 --> 00:41:34,000 SCIENCE BY SMITH AND HIS FELLOWS 1223 00:41:34,001 --> 00:41:36,000 IS IMMEASURABLE. 1224 00:41:36,001 --> 00:41:38,000 IT SUPPORTS A LONG-TERM CORAL 1225 00:41:38,001 --> 00:41:40,000 REEF MONITORING PLATFORM AND 1226 00:41:40,001 --> 00:41:42,000 OCEAN OBSERVATION PLATFORM AND 1227 00:41:42,001 --> 00:41:45,000 SURFACE-BASED RESEARCH. 1228 00:41:45,001 --> 00:41:48,000 SINCE ITS INCEPTION, THE TEAM AT 1229 00:41:48,001 --> 00:41:51,000 AQUARIUS HAS MONITORED A PROGRAM 1230 00:41:51,001 --> 00:41:54,000 TO TRACK THE DEVASTATING IMPACTS 1231 00:41:54,001 --> 00:41:56,000 OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 1232 00:41:56,001 --> 00:41:58,000 THEY HAVE SUCCESSFULLY REACHED 1233 00:41:58,001 --> 00:42:00,000 OUT TO THE WORLD BEYOND THE 1234 00:42:00,001 --> 00:42:02,000 SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY, EDUCATING 1235 00:42:02,001 --> 00:42:04,000 SCHOOL CHILDREN, ENVIRONMENTAL 1236 00:42:04,001 --> 00:42:08,000 ACTIVISTS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES ON THE CHANGES 1237 00:42:08,001 --> 00:42:10,000 OC 1238 00:42:10,001 --> 00:42:12,000 EMPLOYING STATE OF THE ART 1239 00:42:12,001 --> 00:42:14,000 TECHNOLOGY, THEY CORRESPOND WITH 1240 00:42:14,001 --> 00:42:15,000 STUDENTS AND SCIENTISTS. 1241 00:42:15,001 --> 00:42:17,000 HIS RESPONSE TO SCHOOL 1242 00:42:17,001 --> 00:42:20,000 CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS REVEAL NOT 1243 00:42:20,001 --> 00:42:21,000 ONLY HIS EXPERTISE, BUT SINCERE 1244 00:42:21,001 --> 00:42:24,000 DESIRE TO SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE 1245 00:42:24,001 --> 00:42:27,000 GAINED AT AQUARIUS IN THE HOPES 1246 00:42:27,001 --> 00:42:31,000 OF SAVING THE MARINE ECOSYSTEM. 1247 00:42:31,001 --> 00:42:33,000 THE WORK DONE IMPROVES TH LIVES 1248 00:42:33,001 --> 00:42:35,000 OF M 1249 00:42:35,001 --> 00:42:37,000 ASTRONAUTS WHOSE HEALTH AND 1250 00:42:37,001 --> 00:42:40,000 SAFETY IS ENSURED TO FISHERMEN 1251 00:42:40,001 --> 00:42:42,000 WHOSE LIVELIHOODS DEPEND ON THE 1252 00:42:42,001 --> 00:42:43,000 EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE 1253 00:42:43,001 --> 00:42:47,000 WORLD'S MARINECOSYSTEMS. 1254 00:42:47,001 --> 00:42:50,000 THIS MONDAY, OUR NATION WILL 1255 00:42:50,001 --> 00:42:51,000 GAZE AND WONDER AT THE 1256 00:42:51,001 --> 00:42:53,000 ASTRONAUTS WHO WILL LIFT OFF IN 1257 00:42:53,001 --> 00:42:56,000 THE SPACE SHUTTLE. 1258 00:42:56,001 --> 00:42:58,000 AS IMPORTANT AS THE WORKHOSE 1259 00:42:58,001 --> 00:43:02,000 ASTRONAUTS DO, I BELIEVE THE 1260 00:43:02,001 --> 00:43:03,000 WORK DONE AT AQUARIUS IS NO LESS 1261 00:43:03,001 --> 00:43:05,000 COURAGEOUS AND NO LESS ESSENTIAL 1262 00:43:05,001 --> 00:43:07,000 OF OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE 1263 00:43:07,001 --> 00:43:09,000 WORLD. 1264 00:43:09,001 --> 00:43:11,000 SMITH, ALONG WITH THE OTHERS 1265 00:43:11,001 --> 00:43:14,000 RISKED AND COMMITTED HIS LIF 1266 00:43:14,001 --> 00:43:16,000 DAILY FOR THE CAUSE OF RESEARCH, 1267 00:43:16,001 --> 00:43:17,000 EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION, 1268 00:43:17,001 --> 00:43:19,000 WHICH BENEFITS US ALL. 1269 00:43:19,001 --> 00:43:23,000 IN A FEW SHORT MINUTES, ON 1270 00:43:23,001 --> 00:43:26,000 TUESDAY AFTERNOON, A DEDICATED 1271 00:43:26,001 --> 00:43:27,000 MAN SUDDENLY LOSS IN THE COURSE 1272 00:43:27,001 --> 00:43:28,000 OF AN OTHERWISE STANDARD 1273 00:43:28,001 --> 00:43:30,000 MISSION. 1274 00:43:30,001 --> 00:43:33,000 LET US NOT RISK LOSING THE WORK 1275 00:43:33,001 --> 00:43:35,000 THAT HE WAS SO PASSIONATE ABOUT. 1276 00:43:35,001 --> 00:43:37,000 I NOT ONLY MOURN THE DEATH OF A 1277 00:43:37,001 --> 00:43:38,000 FRIEND, SON, FRIEND AND 1278 00:43:38,001 --> 00:43:40,000 COLLEAGUE BUT URGE THIS MISSION 1279 00:43:40,001 --> 00:43:41,000 CONTINUE. 1280 00:43:41,001 --> 00:43:43,000 LOOKING FORWARD, I HOPE HIS LIFE 1281 00:43:43,001 --> 00:43:44,000 WILL CONTINUE TO INSPIRE THE 1282 00:43:44,001 --> 00:43:46,000 IMPORTANT WORK OF PRESERVING THE 1283 00:43:46,001 --> 00:43:48,000 WORLD'S OCEANS. 1284 00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:52,000 I OFFER MY CONDOLENCES TO HIS 1285 00:43:52,001 --> 00:43:54,000 FAMILY, TO THE ENTIRE AQUARIUS 1286 00:43:54,001 --> 00:43:55,000 TEAM AND ASK THIS HOUSE HONOR 1287 00:43:55,001 --> 00:43:59,000 THIS MAN AS A MAN DIED SERVING 1288 00:43:59,001 --> 00:44:00,000 HIS COUNTRY IN PURSUIT OF 1289 00:44:00,001 --> 00:44:02,000 SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS. 1290 00:44:02,001 --> 00:44:06,000 I ASK TH 1291 00:44:06,001 --> 00:44:08,000 MOMENT OF SILENCE. 1292 00:44:08,001 --> 00:44:25,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: SO 1293 00:44:25,001 --> 00:44:27,000 ORDERED. 1294 00:44:27,001 --> 00:44:34,000 MR. BAIRD: I YIELD BACK THE 1295 00:44:34,001 --> 00:44:35,000 BALANCE OF MY TIME. 1296 00:44:35,001 --> 00:44:38,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: I 1297 00:44:38,001 --> 00:44:41,000 RECOGNIZE MR. POE OF TEXAS. FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 1298 00:44:41,001 --> 00:44:42,000 GENTLEMAN FROM ALABAMA RISE? 1299 00:44:42,001 --> 00:44:44,000 >> I ASK FOR UNANIMOUS CONSENT 1300 00:44:44,001 --> 00:44:45,000 TO CLAIM MY TIME. 1301 00:44:45,001 --> 00:44:46,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 1302 00:44:46,001 --> 00:44:47,000 OBJECTION. 1303 00:44:47,001 --> 00:44:50,000 >> MR. SPEAKER, TODAY, I RISE TO 1304 00:44:50,001 --> 00:44:51,000 CONGRATULATE, PAY TRIBUTE AND 1305 00:44:51,001 --> 00:44:54,000 HONOR A GREAT AMERICAN ON THE 1306 00:44:54,001 --> 00:44:57,000 OCCASION OF HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY. 1307 00:44:57,001 --> 00:44:59,000 JOHN A. GARRETT TURNS 100 YEARS 1308 00:44:59,001 --> 00:45:00,000 OLD THIS SUNDAY. 1309 00:45:00,001 --> 00:45:02,000 THE GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA HAS 1310 00:45:02,001 --> 00:45:04,000 DECLARED THIS SUNDAY JOHN A. 1311 00:45:04,001 --> 00:45:06,000 GARRETT DAY IN THE STATE AND THE 1312 00:45:06,001 --> 00:45:07,000 BAY OF MONTGOMERY HAS DONE THE 1313 00:45:07,001 --> 00:45:09,000 SAME IN OUR STATE'S CAPITAL 1314 00:45:09,001 --> 00:45:10,000 CITY. 1315 00:45:10,001 --> 00:45:13,000 I WANT TO JOIN IN SHARING MY 1316 00:45:13,001 --> 00:45:15,000 BEST WISHES WITH THOSE LOVED 1317 00:45:15,001 --> 00:45:18,000 ONES AND FRIENDS WHO WILL BE 1318 00:45:18,001 --> 00:45:23,000 SHARING IN THIS SELL BAITING THE 1319 00:45:23,001 --> 00:45:24,000 MILESTONE ON SUNDAY IN SNOWDEN, 1320 00:45:24,001 --> 00:45:26,000 ALABAMA. 1321 00:45:26,001 --> 00:45:27,000 JOHN GARRETT WAS THE 4TH FROM 1322 00:45:27,001 --> 00:45:29,000 THE OLDEST OF 10 CHILDREN. 1323 00:45:29,001 --> 00:45:32,000 HE IS THE LAST SURVING SIBLING 1324 00:45:32,001 --> 00:45:34,000 IN HIS FAMILY. 1325 00:45:34,001 --> 00:45:35,000 JOHN A. AS HE IS CALLED BY HIS 1326 00:45:35,001 --> 00:45:38,000 FRIENDS, ATTENDED AUBURN 1327 00:45:38,001 --> 00:45:40,000 UNIVERSITY, WHICH WAS CALLED THE 1328 00:45:40,001 --> 00:45:42,000 ALABAMA POLLY TECH NICK 1329 00:45:42,001 --> 00:45:43,000 INSTITUTE AND GRADUATED WITH A 1330 00:45:43,001 --> 00:45:45,000 DEGREE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING IN 1331 00:45:45,001 --> 00:45:46,000 1936. 1332 00:45:46,001 --> 00:45:51,000 HE MET THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, MS. 1333 00:45:51,001 --> 00:45:53,000 KATHERINE STOWERS. 1334 00:45:53,001 --> 00:45:55,000 THEY HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS, MARY 1335 00:45:55,001 --> 00:45:57,000 JOHN AND KITTY WALTER. 1336 00:45:57,001 --> 00:45:59,000 JOHN A. IS ONE OF THOSE TYPE OF 1337 00:45:59,001 --> 00:46:00,000 INDIVIDUALS THAT WHEN YOU MEET 1338 00:46:00,001 --> 00:46:01,000 HIM, YOU CAN'T HELP BUT LIKE 1339 00:46:01,001 --> 00:46:04,000 HIM. 1340 00:46:04,001 --> 00:46:05,000 HE HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS AWARDS 1341 00:46:05,001 --> 00:46:08,000 THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER. 1342 00:46:08,001 --> 00:46:11,000 JOHN A. WAS QUITE A MULTITASKER 1343 00:46:11,001 --> 00:46:14,000 DURING HIS CAREER, WHICH SPANNED 1344 00:46:14,001 --> 00:46:15,000 MANY DECADES, WHETHER IT WAS 1345 00:46:15,001 --> 00:46:17,000 DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR AS 1346 00:46:17,001 --> 00:46:18,000 HE SERVED IN THE CORE OF CIVIL 1347 00:46:18,001 --> 00:46:21,000 ENGINEERS OR AS A STATE DIRECTOR 1348 00:46:21,001 --> 00:46:22,000 OF THE FORMER'S HOME 1349 00:46:22,001 --> 00:46:24,000 ADMINISTRATION WHERE HE SERVED 1350 00:46:24,001 --> 00:46:27,000 UNDER PRESIDENT NIXON AND 1351 00:46:27,001 --> 00:46:28,000 PRESIDENT FORWARD'S 1352 00:46:28,001 --> 00:46:29,000 ADMINISTRATION. 1353 00:46:29,001 --> 00:46:31,000 JOHN A. WAS A GENTLEMAN FARMER 1354 00:46:31,001 --> 00:46:33,000 AND SERVED AT THE ALABAMA FARM 1355 00:46:33,001 --> 00:46:36,000 BUREAU AND ALSO DID WORK IN 1356 00:46:36,001 --> 00:46:38,000 CONSTRUCTION AND AT THE AGE OF 1357 00:46:38,001 --> 00:46:39,000 76 HE FOUND THE ALABAMA RURAL 1358 00:46:39,001 --> 00:46:42,000 WATER ADMINISTRATION, WHICH HE 1359 00:46:42,001 --> 00:46:43,000 SERVED FOR 17 YEARS. 1360 00:46:43,001 --> 00:46:46,000 BUT OF ALL THE THINGS THAT JOHN 1361 00:46:46,001 --> 00:46:48,000 A. IS KNOWN FOR, PROBABLY HIS 1362 00:46:48,001 --> 00:46:49,000 GREAT STORY TELLING RANKS AMONG 1363 00:46:49,001 --> 00:46:51,000 THE TOP. 1364 00:46:51,001 --> 00:46:52,000 MR. SPEAKER, ON THIS MOMENTOUS 1365 00:46:52,001 --> 00:46:55,000 OCCASION ON REACHING A CENTURY 1366 00:46:55,001 --> 00:46:56,000 MARK, WHICH VERY FEW PEOPLE GET 1367 00:46:56,001 --> 00:46:57,000 THE OPPORTUNITY TO SELL BAIT, I 1368 00:46:57,001 --> 00:47:00,000 WISH THIS GREAT AMERICAN ALL THE 1369 00:47:00,001 --> 00:47:01,000 BEST, MANY MORE YEARS TO COME 1370 00:47:01,001 --> 00:47:03,000 AND HAPPINESS AND GOD'S BLESSING 1371 00:47:03,001 --> 00:47:04,000 TO HE D HIS FAMILY. 1372 00:47:04,001 --> 00:47:06,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 1373 00:47:06,001 --> 00:47:10,000 TIME. 1374 00:47:10,001 --> 00:47:18,000 . 1375 00:47:18,001 --> 00:47:20,000 WE RECOGNIZE MS. MOORE. 1376 00:47:20,001 --> 00:47:22,000 MS. MOORE: MR. SPEAKER, I WOULD 1377 00:47:22,001 --> 00:47:23,000 ASK FOR -- TO BE ABLE TO REVISE 1378 00:47:23,001 --> 00:47:24,000 AND EXTEND MY REMARKS. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 1379 00:47:24,001 --> 00:47:28,000 OBJECTION. 1380 00:47:28,001 --> 00:47:31,000 MS. MOORE: SPEAKER. 1381 00:47:31,001 --> 00:47:33,000 I RISE TODAY TO MARK THE 1382 00:47:33,001 --> 00:47:36,000 UPCOMING CELEBRATION OF MOTHER'S DAY. 1383 00:47:36,001 --> 00:47:38,000 TH WEEKEND, SUNDAY, MAY 10. 1384 00:47:38,001 --> 00:47:39,000 MOTHER'S DAY IS A JOYOUS 1385 00:47:39,001 --> 00:47:41,000 OCCASION, AND ONOF THE REASONS 1386 00:47:41,001 --> 00:47:43,000 THAT MOTHER'S DAY IS SUCH A 1387 00:47:43,001 --> 00:47:45,000 CELEBRATION IS THAT WE ALL 1388 00:47:45,001 --> 00:47:46,000 RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANT ROLE 1389 00:47:46,001 --> 00:47:48,000 THAT MOTHERS PLAY NOT ONLY IN 1390 00:47:48,001 --> 00:47:51,000 THE LIVES OF THEIR BIO 1391 00:47:51,001 --> 00:47:53,000 CHILDREN, BUT IN THE LIVES OF -- 1392 00:47:53,001 --> 00:47:56,000 LIFE OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY. 1393 00:47:56,001 --> 00:47:58,000 IT'S BEEN ASTUTELY OBSERVED THAT 1394 00:47:58,001 --> 00:48:01,000 THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE 1395 00:48:01,001 --> 00:48:03,000 RULES THE WORLD. 1396 00:48:03,001 --> 00:48:05,000 HOWEVER, FOR TOO MANY WOMEN IN 1397 00:48:05,001 --> 00:48:08,000 OUR WORLD, THE JOURNEY TO 1398 00:48:08,001 --> 00:48:10,000 MOTHERHOOD, PREGNAN AND 1399 00:48:10,001 --> 00:48:12,000 CHILDBIRTH, IS A DEATH SENTENCE. 1400 00:48:12,001 --> 00:48:14,000 RATHER THAN A REASON FOR 1401 00:48:14,001 --> 00:48:16,000 CELEBRATION. 1402 00:48:16,001 --> 00:48:18,000 FOR EVERY WOMAN WHO DIES, 1403 00:48:18,001 --> 00:48:20,000 ANOTHER 20 SURVIVE, BUT MUST 1404 00:48:20,001 --> 00:48:22,000 SUFFER FROM THE ILLNESSES OR 1405 00:48:22,001 --> 00:48:25,000 INJURIES INCURRED DURING 1406 00:48:25,001 --> 00:48:27,000 PREGNANCY OR CHILDBIRTH. 1407 00:48:27,001 --> 00:48:30,000 MATERNAL MORTALITY IS THE 1408 00:48:30,001 --> 00:48:31,000 HIGHEST HEALTH INEQUITY ON THE 1409 00:48:31,001 --> 00:48:36,000 PLANET EARTH. 1410 00:48:36,001 --> 00:48:37,000 WITH MORE THAN 99% OF DEATHS IN 1411 00:48:37,001 --> 00:48:38,000 PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH 1412 00:48:38,001 --> 00:48:39,000 OCCURRING IN THE DEVELOPING 1413 00:48:39,001 --> 00:48:41,000 WORLD. 1414 00:48:41,001 --> 00:48:45,000 AND WE DON'T REALLY HAVE TO LOOK 1415 00:48:45,001 --> 00:48:47,000 THAT FAR TO FIND THESE INEQUITIES. 1416 00:48:47,001 --> 00:48:49,000 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN 1417 00:48:49,001 --> 00:48:52,000 HEMISPHERE, HAITI HAS THE 1418 00:48:52,001 --> 00:48:53,000 HIGHEST MATERNITY MORTALITY RATE 1419 00:48:53,001 --> 00:48:55,000 IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. 1420 00:48:55,001 --> 00:48:57,000 WOMEN IN THE WORLD'S LEAST 1421 00:48:57,001 --> 00:49:01,000 DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ARE 300 1422 00:49:01,001 --> 00:49:02,000 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DIE IN 1423 00:49:02,001 --> 00:49:04,000 CHILDBIRTH OR FROM PREGNANCY 1424 00:49:04,001 --> 00:49:06,000 RELATED COMPLICATIONS THAN WOMEN 1425 00:49:06,001 --> 00:49:09,000 IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD. 1426 00:49:09,001 --> 00:49:11,000 AND THIS IS A TRAGEDY THAT IS 1427 00:49:11,001 --> 00:49:13,000 COMPOUNDED BY THE FACT THAT 1428 00:49:13,001 --> 00:49:14,000 THESE MATERNAL DEATHS ARE 1429 00:49:14,001 --> 00:49:16,000 PREVENTABLE. 1430 00:49:16,001 --> 00:49:18,000 AND YOU KNOW, WHEN A WOMAN DIES 1431 00:49:18,001 --> 00:49:21,000 AFTER GIVING BIRTH, THE 1432 00:49:21,001 --> 00:49:23,000 MORTALITY RATE FOR THE NOW 1433 00:49:23,001 --> 00:49:28,000 MOTHERLESS NEWBORNS CAN BE AS 1434 00:49:28,001 --> 00:49:31,000 HIGH AS 90% IN POOR COUNTRIES. 1435 00:49:31,001 --> 00:49:33,000 FORTUNATELY, THERE ARE KNOWN 1436 00:49:33,001 --> 00:49:34,000 INTERVENTIONS, PROVEN 1437 00:49:34,001 --> 00:49:36,000 INTERVENTIONS THAT CAN BE 1438 00:49:36,001 --> 00:49:38,000 IMPLEMENTED TO REDUCE MATERNAL MORTALITY. 1439 00:49:38,001 --> 00:49:41,000 HOWEVER WE NEED TO INVEST MORE 1440 00:49:41,001 --> 00:49:42,000 IN THE PROGRAMS TO FUND THESE INTERVENTIONS. 1441 00:49:42,001 --> 00:49:44,000 BY ONE ESTIMATE THE U.S. WOULD 1442 00:49:44,001 --> 00:49:47,000 NEED TO INCREASE ITS INVESTMENT 1443 00:49:47,001 --> 00:49:49,000 IN GLOBAL MATERNAL HEALTH 1444 00:49:49,001 --> 00:49:51,000 EFFORTS, UP TO $1.3 BILLION A 1445 00:49:51,001 --> 00:49:53,000 YEAR, IN ORDER TO HELP ACHIEVE 1446 00:49:53,001 --> 00:49:56,000 THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL 1447 00:49:56,001 --> 00:49:59,000 OFEDUCING GLOBALATERNITY 1448 00:49:59,001 --> 00:50:01,000 MORTALITY BY 3/4 IN 2015. 1449 00:50:01,001 --> 00:50:04,000 AND OUT OF EIGHT MILLENNIUM 1450 00:50:04,001 --> 00:50:07,000 DEVELOPMENT GOALS, EIGHT, THE 1451 00:50:07,001 --> 00:50:10,000 GOAL TO REDUCE MATERNALEATHS 1452 00:50:10,001 --> 00:50:12,000 IS -- HAS THE LEAST PROGRESS 1453 00:50:12,001 --> 00:50:15,000 BEEN MADE ON IT. 1454 00:50:15,001 --> 00:50:18,000 ADDITIONAL FUNDS WOULD HELP 1455 00:50:18,001 --> 00:50:21,000 INCREASE ACCESS TO PRENATAL 1456 00:50:21,001 --> 00:50:22,000 CARE, NEONATAL CARE, AND 1457 00:50:22,001 --> 00:50:25,000 POSTPARTUM PERIODS. 1458 00:50:25,001 --> 00:50:26,000 IT WOULD PROVIDE UP TO FOUR 1459 00:50:26,001 --> 00:50:28,000 MILLION HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WHO 1460 00:50:28,001 --> 00:50:29,000 ARE NEEDED IN DEVELOPING 1461 00:50:29,001 --> 00:50:30,000 COUNTRIES. 1462 00:50:30,001 --> 00:50:32,000 SIX OF THE SEVEN COUNTRIES WITH 1463 00:50:32,001 --> 00:50:35,000 THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF MATERNITY 1464 00:50:35,001 --> 00:50:38,000 MORTALITY HAVE LESS THAN ONE 1465 00:50:38,001 --> 00:50:39,000 DOCTOR PER EVERY 10,000 PEOPLE. 1466 00:50:39,001 --> 00:50:40,000 THE SEVERE SHORTAGE OF HEALTH 1467 00:50:40,001 --> 00:50:42,000 CARE WORKERS AND THE POOR 1468 00:50:42,001 --> 00:50:46,000 QUALITY OF CARE MUST BE 1469 00:50:46,001 --> 00:50:48,000 ADDRESSED TO ACHIEVE REDUCTIONS 1470 00:50:48,001 --> 00:50:50,000 IN MATERNAL MORTALITY. 1471 00:50:50,001 --> 00:50:52,000 THIS WEEK PRESIDENT OBAMA 1472 00:50:52,001 --> 00:50:54,000 UNVEILED A NEW GLOBAL HEALTH 1473 00:50:54,001 --> 00:50:56,000 INITIATIVE THAT WOULD CALL FOR 1474 00:50:56,001 --> 00:50:58,000 INCREASED U.S. INVESTMENT IN 1475 00:50:58,001 --> 00:50:59,000 GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMS, AND I AM 1476 00:50:59,001 --> 00:51:01,000 THRILLED THAT ONE OF THE 1477 00:51:01,001 --> 00:51:02,000 IDENTIFIED GOALS FOR THIS NEW 1478 00:51:02,001 --> 00:51:04,000 INITIATIVE IS TO REDUCE THE 1479 00:51:04,001 --> 00:51:07,000 MORTALITY OF MOTHERS AND 1480 00:51:07,001 --> 00:51:09,000 CHILDREN UNDER FIVE TO SAVE 1481 00:51:09,001 --> 00:51:12,000 MILLIONS OF LIVES. 1482 00:51:12,001 --> 00:51:14,000 AS A MOTHER, I KNOW THAT BEING A 1483 00:51:14,001 --> 00:51:18,000 MOTHER IS ONE OF THE GREATEST 1484 00:51:18,001 --> 00:51:20,000 JOYS EVER AND BLESSINGS ENJOYED 1485 00:51:20,001 --> 00:51:23,000 ON THIS PLANET. 1486 00:51:23,001 --> 00:51:25,000 AND AGAIN I WISH ALL OF YOU, ALL 1487 00:51:25,001 --> 00:51:27,000 MY COLLEAGUES AND THEIR 1488 00:51:27,001 --> 00:51:29,000 CONSTITUENTS, A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY. 1489 00:51:29,001 --> 00:51:32,000 AND I WOULD HOPE THAT WE WOULD 1490 00:51:32,001 --> 00:51:34,000 SPEND A MOMENT THINKING ABOUT 1491 00:51:34,001 --> 00:51:36,000 ALL THE MOTHERS TO BE, A HALF 1492 00:51:36,001 --> 00:51:39,000 MILLION WOMEN A YEAR IN THE 1493 00:51:39,001 --> 00:51:41,000 WORLD, WHO NEVER, EVER, EVER 1494 00:51:41,001 --> 00:51:43,000 ENJOY MOTHERHOOD BECAUSE THEY 1495 00:51:43,001 --> 00:51:46,000 DIE IN PREGNANCY NEEDLESSLY. 1496 00:51:46,001 --> 00:51:47,000 AND WITH THAT, 1497 00:51:47,001 --> 00:51:50,000 YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 1498 00:51:50,001 --> 00:51:51,000 TIME. 1499 00:51:51,001 --> 00:51:52,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: MR. 1500 00:51:52,001 --> 00:51:54,000 KIRK OF ILLINOIS. 1501 00:51:54,001 --> 00:51:55,000 MR. KIRK: I'D LIKE TO ADDRESS 1502 00:51:55,001 --> 00:51:56,000 THE HOUSE FOR FIVE MINUTES, 1503 00:51:56,001 --> 00:51:57,000 REVISE AND EXTEND. 1504 00:51:57,001 --> 00:52:06,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 1505 00:52:06,001 --> 00:52:08,000 MR. KIRK: MR. SPEAKER, OVER THE 1506 00:52:08,001 --> 00:52:11,000 LAST WEEKS I HAVE SPENT HUNDREDS 1507 00:52:11,001 --> 00:52:13,000 OF HOURS HELPING CRAFT A 1508 00:52:13,001 --> 00:52:15,000 MODERATE CENTRIST BILL ON HEALTH CARE. 1509 00:52:15,001 --> 00:52:16,000 OUR COUNTRY SHOULD WORK ON 1510 00:52:16,001 --> 00:52:17,000 LOWERING THE COST OF HEALTH 1511 00:52:17,001 --> 00:52:20,000 INSURANCE. 1512 00:52:20,001 --> 00:52:22,000 WHILE A NATIONALIZED GOVERNMENT 1513 00:52:22,001 --> 00:52:23,000 H.M.O. COULD PROMPT TAX 1514 00:52:23,001 --> 00:52:25,000 INCREASES, INFLATION, AND A 1515 00:52:25,001 --> 00:52:26,000 DECLINE IN QUALITY, WE COULD 1516 00:52:26,001 --> 00:52:28,000 INSTEADNACT POLICIES THAT 1517 00:52:28,001 --> 00:52:29,000 LOWER THE COST OF HEALTH 1518 00:52:29,001 --> 00:52:31,000 INSURANCE FOR AMERICANS. 1519 00:52:31,001 --> 00:52:33,000 WHEN WE REFORM HEALTH CARE, WE 1520 00:52:33,001 --> 00:52:35,000 SHOULD FOLLOW KEY PRINCIPLES. 1521 00:52:35,001 --> 00:52:38,000 FIRST, REFORMS SHOULD DEFEND 1522 00:52:38,001 --> 00:52:39,000 YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR DOCTOR. 1523 00:52:39,001 --> 00:52:41,000 INSURANCE COMPANIES ALREADY 1524 00:52:41,001 --> 00:52:43,000 INTERFERE WITH MUCH OF OUR CARE, 1525 00:52:43,001 --> 00:52:44,000 AND A GOVERNMENT H.M.O. WOULD DO 1526 00:52:44,001 --> 00:52:45,000 WORSE. 1527 00:52:45,001 --> 00:52:47,000 SECOND, REFORMS SHOULD REWARD 1528 00:52:47,001 --> 00:52:48,000 THE DEVELOPMENT OF BETTER 1529 00:52:48,001 --> 00:52:50,000 TREATMENTS AND CURES. 1530 00:52:50,001 --> 00:52:52,000 AMERICANS SUPPORT TREATING 1531 00:52:52,001 --> 00:52:53,000 DISEASES LIKE DIABETES, BUT THEY 1532 00:52:53,001 --> 00:52:56,000 ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT A CURE. 1533 00:52:56,001 --> 00:52:58,000 AND FINALLY, REFORMS SHOULD BE 1534 00:52:58,001 --> 00:52:59,000 SUSTAINABLE BECAUSE SO MANY 1535 00:52:59,001 --> 00:53:01,000 SENIOR CITIZENS DEPEND ON THEM. 1536 00:53:01,001 --> 00:53:03,000 THE WORST THING WE COULD DO IS 1537 00:53:03,001 --> 00:53:04,000 ENACT A PROGRAM THAT WE CANNOT 1538 00:53:04,001 --> 00:53:05,000 AFFORD. 1539 00:53:05,001 --> 00:53:07,000 IN CONSIDERING HEALTH CARE 1540 00:53:07,001 --> 00:53:09,000 REFORMS, AMERICANS LOOK TO 1541 00:53:09,001 --> 00:53:11,000 CANADA AND BRITAIN AS MODELS. 1542 00:53:11,001 --> 00:53:13,000 CANADIANS HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEW. 1543 00:53:13,001 --> 00:53:14,000 WHILE OVER 60% OF AMERICANS ARE 1544 00:53:14,001 --> 00:53:16,000 ACTUALLY SATISFIED WITH THEIR 1545 00:53:16,001 --> 00:53:18,000 HEALTH CARE PLAN, ONLY 5% OF 1546 00:53:18,001 --> 00:53:20,000 CANADIANS ARE HAPPY. 1547 00:53:20,001 --> 00:53:21,000 OVER 90% OF AMERICANS FACING 1548 00:53:21,001 --> 00:53:23,000 BREAST CANCER ARE TREATED IN 1549 00:53:23,001 --> 00:53:26,000 LESS THAN THREE WEEKS. 1550 00:53:26,001 --> 00:53:27,000 WHILE ONLY 70% OF CANADIANS GET 1551 00:53:27,001 --> 00:53:29,000 SUCH QUICK TREATMENT. 1552 00:53:29,001 --> 00:53:31,000 MEANWHILE, THOUSANDS OF 1553 00:53:31,001 --> 00:53:34,000 CANADIANS SEEK TREATMENT IN U.S. HOSPITALS. 1554 00:53:34,001 --> 00:53:35,000 THE AVERAGE BRITAIN LONGER. 1555 00:53:35,001 --> 00:53:38,000 62 DAYS. 1556 00:53:38,001 --> 00:53:40,000 BRITAIN HAS FEWER ONCOLOGISTS 1557 00:53:40,001 --> 00:53:43,000 THAN ANY OTHER WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY. 1558 00:53:43,001 --> 00:53:45,000 IT'S NO WONDER 1559 00:53:45,001 --> 00:53:46,000 OUT OF 17 INDUSTRIALIZED 1560 00:53:46,001 --> 00:53:47,000 COUNTRIES IN SURVING LUNG 1561 00:53:47,001 --> 00:53:48,000 CANCER. 1562 00:53:48,001 --> 00:53:50,000 THE MOST DRAMATIC DIFFERENCES 1563 00:53:50,001 --> 00:53:52,000 COME IN THE FIELD OF CANCER. 1564 00:53:52,001 --> 00:53:54,000 WHERE BRITAIN'S MOST RESPECTED 1565 00:53:54,001 --> 00:53:58,000 MET CAL JOURNAL, THE LANCET, 1566 00:53:58,001 --> 00:53:59,000 PUBLISHED RESULTS ON A REVIEW OF 1567 00:53:59,001 --> 00:54:00,000 EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN SURVIVAL 1568 00:54:00,001 --> 00:54:02,000 RATES. 1569 00:54:02,001 --> 00:54:04,000 IN SHORT "THE LANCET" REPORTED 1570 00:54:04,001 --> 00:54:06,000 AMERICAN MEN HAVE A 66% CHANCE 1571 00:54:06,001 --> 00:54:08,000 OF SURVING CANCER. 1572 00:54:08,001 --> 00:54:11,000 EUROPEAN MEN, 47%. 1573 00:54:11,001 --> 00:54:13,000 AMERICAN WOMEN, 63%. 1574 00:54:13,001 --> 00:54:15,000 EUROPEAN WOMEN, 56%. 1575 00:54:15,001 --> 00:54:17,000 IN SHORT, YOU ARE MORE LIKELY TO 1576 00:54:17,001 --> 00:54:18,000 LIVE IF YOU ARE TREATED IN 1577 00:54:18,001 --> 00:54:19,000 AMERICA. 1578 00:54:19,001 --> 00:54:22,000 NEWBORNS MOST AT RISK NEED THE 1579 00:54:22,001 --> 00:54:25,000 CARE OF A NEONATAL SPECIALIST. 1580 00:54:25,001 --> 00:54:27,000 IN THE UNITED STATES WE HAVE SIX 1581 00:54:27,001 --> 00:54:28,000 NEONAYTOLOGISTS PER 10,000 LIVE 1582 00:54:28,001 --> 00:54:29,000 BIRTHS. 1583 00:54:29,001 --> 00:54:30,000 IN CANADA THEY HAVE FEWER THAN 1584 00:54:30,001 --> 00:54:32,000 FOUR. 1585 00:54:32,001 --> 00:54:35,000 BRITAIN FEWER THAN THREE. 1586 00:54:35,001 --> 00:54:37,000 IN THIS COUNTRY WE HAVE OVER 1587 00:54:37,001 --> 00:54:38,000 THREE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE 1588 00:54:38,001 --> 00:54:39,000 BEDS PER 10,000. 1589 00:54:39,001 --> 00:54:41,000 2.6 IN CANADA. 1590 00:54:41,001 --> 00:54:43,000 LESS THAN ONE IN BRITAIN. 1591 00:54:43,001 --> 00:54:46,000 IT'S NO WONDER BABIES IN BRITAIN 1592 00:54:46,001 --> 00:54:49,000 ARE 17% MORE LIKELY TO DIE 1593 00:54:49,001 --> 00:54:50,000 COMPARED TO JUST 13% A DECADE 1594 00:54:50,001 --> 00:54:51,000 AGO. 1595 00:54:51,001 --> 00:54:53,000 THE STARKEST DIFFERENCE APPEARS 1596 00:54:53,001 --> 00:54:55,000 WHEN YOU ARE SICKEST. 1597 00:54:55,001 --> 00:54:57,000 IN BRITAIN GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS 1598 00:54:57,001 --> 00:54:59,000 MAINTAIN NINE INTENSIVE CARE 1599 00:54:59,001 --> 00:55:01,000 BEDS PER 100,000 PEOPLE. 1600 00:55:01,001 --> 00:55:04,000 IN AMERICA, WE HAVE THREE TIMES 1601 00:55:04,001 --> 00:55:06,000 THAT NUMBER AT 31 PER 100,000. 1602 00:55:06,001 --> 00:55:09,000 IN SUM, BRITAIN HAS LESS THAN 1603 00:55:09,001 --> 00:55:12,000 TWO DOCTORS PER 1,000 PEOPLE. 1604 00:55:12,001 --> 00:55:13,000 RANKING IT NEXT TO MEXICO, SOUTH 1605 00:55:13,001 --> 00:55:17,000 KOREA, AND TURKEY. 1606 00:55:17,001 --> 00:55:18,000 STORIES OF POOR CARE UNDER 1607 00:55:18,001 --> 00:55:19,000 GOVERNMENT-ONLY SYSTEMS ARE 1608 00:55:19,001 --> 00:55:20,000 COMMON IN BRITAIN. 1609 00:55:20,001 --> 00:55:23,000 LESS FEBRUARY THE DAILY MAIL 1610 00:55:23,001 --> 00:55:25,000 REPORTED ON THE CASE OF MISS 1611 00:55:25,001 --> 00:55:26,000 DOROTHY SIMPSON, AGE 61, WHO HAD 1612 00:55:26,001 --> 00:55:27,000 AN IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT. 1613 00:55:27,001 --> 00:55:29,000 OFFICIALS OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH 1614 00:55:29,001 --> 00:55:31,000 SERVICE DENIED HER CARE TELLING 1615 00:55:31,001 --> 00:55:32,000 HER THAT SHE WAS, QUOTE, TOO 1616 00:55:32,001 --> 00:55:34,000 OLD. 1617 00:55:34,001 --> 00:55:36,000 THE GUARDIAN REPORTS IN JUNE 1618 00:55:36,001 --> 00:55:37,000 THAT ONE IN EIGHT N.H.S. 1619 00:55:37,001 --> 00:55:39,000 HOSPITAL PATIENTS HAVE WAITED 1620 00:55:39,001 --> 00:55:41,000 MORE THAN A YEAR FOR TREATMENT. 1621 00:55:41,001 --> 00:55:44,000 IN CONGRESS, WE HAVE PROPOSALS 1622 00:55:44,001 --> 00:55:45,000 TO CREATE A NEW OPTION FOR 1623 00:55:45,001 --> 00:55:47,000 AMERICANS TO SIGN ON TO A 1624 00:55:47,001 --> 00:55:48,000 GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE PLAN. 1625 00:55:48,001 --> 00:55:52,000 PROPONENTS CLAIM THAT THIS WILL 1626 00:55:52,001 --> 00:55:53,000 OFFER A CHOICE BETWEEN THEIR 1627 00:55:53,001 --> 00:55:55,000 GOVERNMENT PLAN. 1628 00:55:55,001 --> 00:55:57,000 THAT'S WHAT PROPONENTS SAY. 1629 00:55:57,001 --> 00:55:59,000 WHAT THEY DO NOT SAY IS UNDER 1630 00:55:59,001 --> 00:56:01,000 MANY OF THE MAJOR PIECES OF 1631 00:56:01,001 --> 00:56:02,000 LEGISLATION UNDER CONSIDERATION, 1632 00:56:02,001 --> 00:56:05,000 THE GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE PLAN 1633 00:56:05,001 --> 00:56:07,000 IS FUNDED BY ENDING THE TAX 1634 00:56:07,001 --> 00:56:09,000 BREAK EMPLOYERS RECEIVE FOR 1635 00:56:09,001 --> 00:56:11,000 PROVIDING HEALTH CARE INSURANCE. 1636 00:56:11,001 --> 00:56:13,000 THIS TAX BREAK SUPPORTS HEALTH 1637 00:56:13,001 --> 00:56:16,000 INSURANCE PLAN FOR MOST 1638 00:56:16,001 --> 00:56:18,000 FAMILIES. 1639 00:56:18,001 --> 00:56:19,000 165 MILLION AMERICANS. 1640 00:56:19,001 --> 00:56:20,000 DO THEY KNOW THAT THE 1641 00:56:20,001 --> 00:56:23,000 LEGISLATION BEING CONSIDERED 1642 00:56:23,001 --> 00:56:25,000 WILL TRIGGER A TAX DECISION BY 1643 00:56:25,001 --> 00:56:27,000 THEIR EMPLOYER TO CANCEL HEALTH 1644 00:56:27,001 --> 00:56:29,000 INSURANCE FOR THEIR FAMILY? 1645 00:56:29,001 --> 00:56:32,000 LEAVING THEM ACTUALLY NO CHOICE 1646 00:56:32,001 --> 00:56:34,000 BUT AN UNTESTED BRAND NEW 1647 00:56:34,001 --> 00:56:35,000 GOVERNMENT-ONLY H.M.O. 1648 00:56:35,001 --> 00:56:36,000 ATTEMPTING TO CARE FOR THEIR 1649 00:56:36,001 --> 00:56:37,000 FAMILY. 1650 00:56:37,001 --> 00:56:40,000 THE NEW LEGISLATION ALSO DEPENDS 1651 00:56:40,001 --> 00:56:42,000 ON FUNDING FROM A CLIMATE CHANGE 1652 00:56:42,001 --> 00:56:44,000 BILL THAT PRESS REPORTS INDICATE 1653 00:56:44,001 --> 00:56:46,000 A NUMBER OF MAJORITY MEMBERS 1654 00:56:46,001 --> 00:56:47,000 WILL NOT SUPPORT. 1655 00:56:47,001 --> 00:56:49,000 WITHOUT FUNDING FROM A CLIMATE 1656 00:56:49,001 --> 00:56:51,000 CHANGE BILL, THERE IS LITTLE 1657 00:56:51,001 --> 00:56:52,000 REVENUE EXCEPT BORROWING OR 1658 00:56:52,001 --> 00:56:55,000 PRINTING MORE MONEY, TO SUPPORT 1659 00:56:55,001 --> 00:56:56,000 NEW GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE. 1660 00:56:56,001 --> 00:56:59,000 SENIORS AND LOW-INCOME AMERICANS 1661 00:56:59,001 --> 00:57:01,000 DEPEND ON THE PROMISES WE MAKE. 1662 00:57:01,001 --> 00:57:02,000 THE WORST THING WE CAN DO IS 1663 00:57:02,001 --> 00:57:03,000 MAKE COMMITMENTS THAT ARE T 1664 00:57:03,001 --> 00:57:06,000 EXPENSIVE AND PULL THE RUG OUT 1665 00:57:06,001 --> 00:57:07,000 FROM THOSE WHO CAN LEAST AFFORD 1666 00:57:07,001 --> 00:57:09,000 TO COPE. 1667 00:57:09,001 --> 00:57:10,000 WE SHOULD BACK REFORMS THAT THE 1668 00:57:10,001 --> 00:57:12,000 GOVERNMENT CAN AFFORD TO KEEP. 1669 00:57:12,001 --> 00:57:14,000 AND WE WILL BE PUTTING FORWARD 1670 00:57:14,001 --> 00:57:18,000 NEW LEGISLATION ON THAT IN THE 1671 00:57:18,001 --> 00:57:19,000 COMING DAYS. 1672 00:57:19,001 --> 00:57:20,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 1673 00:57:20,001 --> 00:57:23,000 RECOGNIZE MR. JONES FROM NORTH 1674 00:57:23,001 --> 00:57:30,000 CAROLINA. 1675 00:57:30,001 --> 00:57:32,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION. 1676 00:57:32,001 --> 00:57:34,000 MR. JONES: 1677 00:57:34,001 --> 00:57:35,000 MR. SHIMKUS: THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 1678 00:57:35,001 --> 00:57:37,000 IT'S GREAT TO HAVE THIS 1679 00:57:37,001 --> 00:57:40,000 OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO THE FLOOR 1680 00:57:40,001 --> 00:57:43,000 ONCE AGAIN TO GET THE FLOOR AND 1681 00:57:43,001 --> 00:57:46,000 THE COUNTRY READY FOR THE DEBATE 1682 00:57:46,001 --> 00:57:47,000 ON GLOL WARMING. 1683 00:57:47,001 --> 00:57:50,000 I JUST WANT TO PUT A COUPLE 1684 00:57:50,001 --> 00:57:53,000 THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE. 1685 00:57:53,001 --> 00:57:56,000 WHAT THE WHOLE GLOBAL WARMING 1686 00:57:56,001 --> 00:58:00,000 BILL INTENDS TO DO IS TO 1687 00:58:00,001 --> 00:58:02,000 MONETIZE, WHICH MEANS PUT A COST 1688 00:58:02,001 --> 00:58:04,000 FOR CARBON EMISSIONS. 1689 00:58:04,001 --> 00:58:07,000 NOW, EVERYONE KNOWS THAT WHEN 1690 00:58:07,001 --> 00:58:09,000 YOU ADD A COST IT WILL BE PASSED ON. 1691 00:58:09,001 --> 00:58:11,000 SO HENCE THE DEBATE THAT WE HAVE 1692 00:58:11,001 --> 00:58:13,000 BEEN DEALING WITH IN THE 1693 00:58:13,001 --> 00:58:14,000 COMMITTEE OVER THE LAST COUPLE 1694 00:58:14,001 --> 00:58:15,000 WEEKS ABOUT RAISING ENERGY 1695 00:58:15,001 --> 00:58:17,000 COSTS. 1696 00:58:17,001 --> 00:58:19,000 IT'S MOSTLY BEEN ON THE PREMISE 1697 00:58:19,001 --> 00:58:22,000 THAT WHEN YOU MONETIZE CARBON 1698 00:58:22,001 --> 00:58:25,000 EITHER BY PUTTING ON A CARBON 1699 00:58:25,001 --> 00:58:28,000 TAX OR MONETIZING CARBON THROUGH 1700 00:58:28,001 --> 00:58:30,000 WHAT'S CALLED A CAP AND TRADE 1701 00:58:30,001 --> 00:58:32,000 REGIME, WHERE YOU HAVE 1702 00:58:32,001 --> 00:58:35,000 MARKETEERS PURCHASE CARBON 1703 00:58:35,001 --> 00:58:38,000 CREDIT, THAT'S ONLY ONE ASPECT 1704 00:58:38,001 --> 00:58:40,000 OF THE RISE OF ENERGY COST. 1705 00:58:40,001 --> 00:58:43,000 BECAUSE WE DO KNOW THAT THE 1706 00:58:43,001 --> 00:58:45,000 PRODUCERS WILL PASS THAT ON TO THE END USERS. 1707 00:58:45,001 --> 00:58:47,000 WHO ARE THE END USERS? THAT'S US. 1708 00:58:47,001 --> 00:58:50,000 THAT'S INDIVIDUAL CONSUMERS, 1709 00:58:50,001 --> 00:58:52,000 THAT'S MANUFACTURING, THAT'S 1710 00:58:52,001 --> 00:58:53,000 SERVICE INDUSTRY. 1711 00:58:53,001 --> 00:58:55,000 THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT. 1712 00:58:55,001 --> 00:58:57,000 IT WILL BE PASSED BACK ON TO US 1713 00:58:57,001 --> 00:58:59,000 IN HIGHER COSTS FOR US. 1714 00:58:59,001 --> 00:59:01,000 BUT THERE'S OTHER ADDITIONAL 1715 00:59:01,001 --> 00:59:03,000 COST INVOLVED IN THIS WHOLE 1716 00:59:03,001 --> 00:59:06,000 PROGRAM, IN THIS WHOLE PLAN. 1717 00:59:06,001 --> 00:59:09,000 AND THE OTHER ASPECT OF COST IS 1718 00:59:09,001 --> 00:59:10,000 THE ENERGY IT WILL TAKE FOR 1719 00:59:10,001 --> 00:59:13,000 UTILITIES TO CAPTURE CARBON 1720 00:59:13,001 --> 00:59:14,000 DIOXIDE. 1721 00:59:14,001 --> 00:59:18,000 ONE A POWER PLANT THAT'S BEING 1722 00:59:18,001 --> 00:59:19,000 BUILT THAT I JUST VISITED, 40% 1723 00:59:19,001 --> 00:59:22,000 OF THE ELECTRICITY THAT IT WAS 1724 00:59:22,001 --> 00:59:25,000 GOING TO SELL ON THE OPEN MARKET 1725 00:59:25,001 --> 00:59:27,000 WOULD NOW GO INTERNALLY TO TRY 1726 00:59:27,001 --> 00:59:29,000 TO CAPTURE THE CARBON. 1727 00:59:29,001 --> 00:59:31,000 SO IF THEY WERE GOING TO SELL 1728 00:59:31,001 --> 00:59:33,000 1,600 MEGAWATTS OF POWER, NOW 1729 00:59:33,001 --> 00:59:38,000 THEY ARE ONLY GOING TO BE ABLE 1730 00:59:38,001 --> 00:59:39,000 TO SELL ABOUT 950 MEGAWATTS OF POWER. 1731 00:59:39,001 --> 00:59:41,000 BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE 1732 00:59:41,001 --> 00:59:43,000 TO 1733 00:59:43,001 --> 00:59:45,000 IF THEY HAVE DONE THE INVESTMENT 1734 00:59:45,001 --> 00:59:48,000 DOING A COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS 1735 00:59:48,001 --> 00:59:49,000 AND RETURN ON THAT, NOT ONLY ARE 1736 00:59:49,001 --> 00:59:52,000 THEY -- THEY HAVE LESS POWER TO 1737 00:59:52,001 --> 00:59:54,000 SELL ON THE MARKET, IF THE 1738 00:59:54,001 --> 00:59:56,000 DEMAND IS THE SAME, THE SUPPLY 1739 00:59:56,001 --> 00:59:58,000 IS LESS, THE COST WILL GO UP, 1740 00:59:58,001 --> 01:00:01,000 BUT THEY WILL ALSO HAVE TO HAVE 1741 01:00:01,001 --> 01:00:04,000 A SECOND COST INCREASE WHICH 1742 01:00:04,001 --> 01:00:07,000 WILL BE BUYING THE CARBON CREDITS. 1743 01:00:07,001 --> 01:00:09,000 NOW, THAT'S A TWO AREAS BY WHICH 1744 01:00:09,001 --> 01:00:10,000 ELECTRICITY COSTS WILL INCREASE. 1745 01:00:10,001 --> 01:00:11,000 THERE'S ANOTHER AREA THAT 1746 01:00:11,001 --> 01:00:14,000 ELECTRICITY COST WILL INCREASE 1747 01:00:14,001 --> 01:00:18,000 BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO PUSH AN 1748 01:00:18,001 --> 01:00:20,000 EFFICIENCY STANDARD ON UTILITIES 1749 01:00:20,001 --> 01:00:21,000 WHICH IS ANOTHER ASPECT THAT 1750 01:00:21,001 --> 01:00:23,000 THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE 1751 01:00:23,001 --> 01:00:26,000 MAJOR CAPITAL INVESTMENTS. 1752 01:00:26,001 --> 01:00:29,000 SO WE HAVE THREE TIMES A BURDEN 1753 01:00:29,001 --> 01:00:32,000 ON UTILITIES 1754 01:00:32,001 --> 01:00:36,000 PASS ON TO THE CONSUMER. 1755 01:00:36,001 --> 01:00:40,000 NOW, THE CONCERN MANY OF US HAVE 1756 01:00:40,001 --> 01:00:44,000 , IF WE WANT 1757 01:00:44,001 --> 01:00:47,000 JOBS, AND WANT TO MAINTAIN 1758 01:00:47,001 --> 01:00:50,000 OUR COMPETITIVE 1759 01:00:50,001 --> 01:00:51,000 WORLD ECONOMIES, WE HAVE TO HAVE 1760 01:00:51,001 --> 01:00:54,000 LOW-COST POWER. 1761 01:00:54,001 --> 01:00:56,000 AND THE OTHER THING THAT'S 1762 01:00:56,001 --> 01:01:00,000 REALLY HARD TO UNDERSTAND IS, 1763 01:01:00,001 --> 01:01:04,000 WHY WOULD WE UNILATERALLY 1764 01:01:04,001 --> 01:01:07,000 THE COST TO 1765 01:01:07,001 --> 01:01:09,000 SERVICES WHEN THE MAJOR EMITTERS 1766 01:01:09,001 --> 01:01:11,000 OF THE WORLD TODAY WILL NOT BE 1767 01:01:11,001 --> 01:01:15,000 FORCED TO COMPLY? 1768 01:01:15,001 --> 01:01:16,000 HERE'S A CHART OF THE IMPORTANT 1769 01:01:16,001 --> 01:01:17,000 TRANSITIONS AND EMITTING 1770 01:01:17,001 --> 01:01:19,000 COUNTRIES. 1771 01:01:19,001 --> 01:01:20,000 IT WOULD SURPRISE A LOT OF 1772 01:01:20,001 --> 01:01:22,000 PEOPLE TO NOTICE THAT AT THE 1773 01:01:22,001 --> 01:01:24,000 BOTTOM HERE IS THE UNITED STATES. 1774 01:01:24,001 --> 01:01:25,000 WE HAVE HAD VERY LITTLE 1775 01:01:25,001 --> 01:01:29,000 IN EMISSIONS. 1776 01:01:29,001 --> 01:01:31,000 WHERE HAS ALL THE GROWTH COME? 1777 01:01:31,001 --> 01:01:33,000 AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, LATIN 1778 01:01:33,001 --> 01:01:38,000 AMERICA, SOUTHEAST ASIA, INDIA, 1779 01:01:38,001 --> 01:01:40,000 CHINA, KOREA, 1780 01:01:40,001 --> 01:01:46,000 THIS IS THE INCREASE IN THE EMISSIONS. 1781 01:01:46,001 --> 01:01:49,000 . 1782 01:01:49,001 --> 01:01:51,000 AS WE COME TO THIS DEBATE, IF WE 1783 01:01:51,001 --> 01:01:54,000 JUST WANTO BE STRAIGHTFORWARD, 1784 01:01:54,001 --> 01:01:56,000 WE'RE GOING TO SAY IF WE'RE 1785 01:01:56,001 --> 01:01:58,000 GOING TO ENFORCE ALL THIS PAIN 1786 01:01:58,001 --> 01:02:00,000 ON THE U.S. ECONOMY AT A TIME 1787 01:02:00,001 --> 01:02:02,000 WHEN THE ECONOMY CAN'T ACCEPT 1788 01:02:02,001 --> 01:02:04,000 THE PAIN BECAUSE OF THE JOB 1789 01:02:04,001 --> 01:02:05,000 LOSSES, SHOULDN'T WE HAVE SOME 1790 01:02:05,001 --> 01:02:06,000 GAIN? 1791 01:02:06,001 --> 01:02:09,000 THE REALITY IS, WE COULD STOP 1792 01:02:09,001 --> 01:02:11,000 OUR CARBON EMISSIONS TODAY AND 1793 01:02:11,001 --> 01:02:14,000 PUT IT TO ZERO. 1794 01:02:14,001 --> 01:02:16,000 AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO 1795 01:02:16,001 --> 01:02:17,000 WORLDWIDE CARBON EMISSIONS? 1796 01:02:17,001 --> 01:02:19,000 THEY WILL GO UP. 1797 01:02:19,001 --> 01:02:20,000 WE COULD GO TO ZERO. 1798 01:02:20,001 --> 01:02:24,000 THEY WOULD GO UP. 1799 01:02:24,001 --> 01:02:26,000 THAT IS NO WAY TO ADDRESS A 1800 01:02:26,001 --> 01:02:30,000 PROBLEM. 1801 01:02:30,001 --> 01:02:32,000 WE HAVE DECLING CARBON 1802 01:02:32,001 --> 01:02:34,000 EMISSIONS IN OUR ECONOMY TODAY. 1803 01:02:34,001 --> 01:02:38,000 AND THE REASON WHY WE HAVE IT IS 1804 01:02:38,001 --> 01:02:39,000 THE RECESSION WE ARE FACING. 1805 01:02:39,001 --> 01:02:41,000 MANUFACTURING AND JOB LOSS 1806 01:02:41,001 --> 01:02:42,000 CREATES LOWER EMISSIONS, WHICH 1807 01:02:42,001 --> 01:02:46,000 IS WHAT MY FRIENDS ON THE OTHER 1808 01:02:46,001 --> 01:02:47,000 SIDE WOULD LIKE TO SEE -- 1809 01:02:47,001 --> 01:02:48,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1810 01:02:48,001 --> 01:02:50,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 1811 01:02:50,001 --> 01:02:57,000 MR. SHIMKUS: WE'RE GO TO GO 1812 01:02:57,001 --> 01:02:58,000 FIGHT TO DEFEAT IT. 1813 01:02:58,001 --> 01:02:59,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: MR. 1814 01:02:59,001 --> 01:03:02,000 BURTON OF INDIANA. 1815 01:03:02,001 --> 01:03:06,000 MR. DEFAZIO OF OREGON. 1816 01:03:06,001 --> 01:03:08,000 MR. MCHENRY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 1817 01:03:08,001 --> 01:03:10,000 MS. CUPT TURF OHIO. 1818 01:03:10,001 --> 01:03:12,000 MS. PINGREE OF MAINE. 1819 01:03:12,001 --> 01:03:15,000 MR. KIRK OF ILLINOIS. 1820 01:03:15,001 --> 01:03:18,000 MR. SCHIFF OF CALIFORNIA. 1821 01:03:18,001 --> 01:03:20,000 MS. JACKSON LEE OF TEXAS. 1822 01:03:20,001 --> 01:03:23,000 UNDER THE SPEAKER'S ANNOUNCED 1823 01:03:23,001 --> 01:03:26,000 POLICY OF JANUARY 6, 2009, 1824 01:03:26,001 --> 01:03:28,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MINNESOTA, MR. 1825 01:03:28,001 --> 01:03:30,000 ELLISON, IS RECOGNIZED FOR 60 1826 01:03:30,001 --> 01:03:32,000 MINUTES AS THE DESIGNEE OF THE 1827 01:03:32,001 --> 01:03:33,000 MAJORITY. 1828 01:03:33,001 --> 01:03:34,000 MR. ELLISON: THANK YOU, MR. 1829 01:03:34,001 --> 01:03:36,000 SPEAKER. 1830 01:03:36,001 --> 01:03:38,000 AND I AM HERE TO CLAIM THE TIME 1831 01:03:38,001 --> 01:03:39,000 TONIGHT ON BEHALF OF THE 1832 01:03:39,001 --> 01:03:42,000 PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS. 1833 01:03:42,001 --> 01:03:44,000 THE PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS. 1834 01:03:44,001 --> 01:03:46,000 WE COME TO THE FLOOR EVERY WEEK 1835 01:03:46,001 --> 01:03:49,000 TO TALK ABOUT A PROGRESSIVE 1836 01:03:49,001 --> 01:03:53,000 VISION FOR AMERICA, TO DISCUSS 1837 01:03:53,001 --> 01:03:55,000 WHAT AMERICA IS AND COULD BE TO 1838 01:03:55,001 --> 01:03:58,000 EMBRACE THE IDEA THAT EVERYONE 1839 01:03:58,001 --> 01:03:59,000 DOES BETTER WHEN EVERYONE DOES 1840 01:03:59,001 --> 01:04:02,000 BETTER, TO EMBACE THE IDEA THAT 1841 01:04:02,001 --> 01:04:04,000 WE SHOULD LOOK AT THE WORLD WITH 1842 01:04:04,001 --> 01:04:06,000 COURAGE, NOT WITH FEAR, THAT WE 1843 01:04:06,001 --> 01:04:08,000 BELIEVE IN DIALOGUE, WE BELIEVE 1844 01:04:08,001 --> 01:04:10,000 IN DISCUSSION, WE BELIEVE IN 1845 01:04:10,001 --> 01:04:12,000 PEOPLE DOING WELL. 1846 01:04:12,001 --> 01:04:14,000 AND WE BELIEVE IN RADICAL 1847 01:04:14,001 --> 01:04:17,000 ABUNDANCE NOT FEAR OR SCARCITY. 1848 01:04:17,001 --> 01:04:20,000 A PROGRESSIVE VISION, YES, EVEN 1849 01:04:20,001 --> 01:04:21,000 A LIBERAL VISION OF AN AMERICA, 1850 01:04:21,001 --> 01:04:24,000 WHICH IS DOING WELL, BEC 1851 01:04:24,001 --> 01:04:27,000 EVERYBODY IS WORKING, WE'RE 1852 01:04:27,001 --> 01:04:28,000 PROMOTING BROAD-BASED ECONOMIC 1853 01:04:28,001 --> 01:04:30,000 POLICIES THAT ALLOW FOR HIGHER 1854 01:04:30,001 --> 01:04:31,000 QU 1855 01:04:31,001 --> 01:04:32,000 AMERICANS. 1856 01:04:32,001 --> 01:04:34,000 YES, THE PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS 1857 01:04:34,001 --> 01:04:36,000 COMES TO THE FLOOR EVERY WEEK TO 1858 01:04:36,001 --> 01:04:38,000 TALK WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 1859 01:04:38,001 --> 01:04:39,000 AND OUR COLLEAGUES ABOUT THESE 1860 01:04:39,001 --> 01:04:40,000 CRITICAL ISSUES. 1861 01:04:40,001 --> 01:04:42,000 TONIGHT, WE HAVE A GREAT TOPIC. 1862 01:04:42,001 --> 01:04:46,000 BEFORE I ANNOUNCE IT. 1863 01:04:46,001 --> 01:04:49,000 HAPPY AND PLEASED TO BE JOINED 1864 01:04:49,001 --> 01:04:52,000 TONIGHT BY A DYNAMIC ADVOCATE 1865 01:04:52,001 --> 01:04:56,000 FOR THE CAUSE OF HUMAN JUSTICE, 1866 01:04:56,001 --> 01:05:00,000 CONGRESSWOMAN GWEN MOORE FROM 1867 01:05:00,001 --> 01:05:01,000 THE GREAT STATE OF WISCONSIN. 1868 01:05:01,001 --> 01:05:02,000 MS. MOORE: THANK YOU, MR. 1869 01:05:02,001 --> 01:05:04,000 ELLISON. 1870 01:05:04,001 --> 01:05:05,000 I WOULD START OUT BY 1871 01:05:05,001 --> 01:05:08,000 ACKNOWLEDGING ALL OF THE 1872 01:05:08,001 --> 01:05:09,000 TREMENDOUS WORK THAT THE NINE TO 1873 01:05:09,001 --> 01:05:12,000 FIVE ORGANIZATION FOUNDED REALLY 1874 01:05:12,001 --> 01:05:15,000 IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, HAS 1875 01:05:15,001 --> 01:05:19,000 DONE AROUND THE ISSUE OF THE 1876 01:05:19,001 --> 01:05:20,000 IMPORTANCE OF PROVIDING SICK PAY 1877 01:05:20,001 --> 01:05:24,000 TO WORKERS. 1878 01:05:24,001 --> 01:05:26,000 NATIONWIDE, PEOPLE MAY NOT 1879 01:05:26,001 --> 01:05:27,000 REALIZE IT, BUT WORKERS 1880 01:05:27,001 --> 01:05:29,000 NATIONWIDE HAVE NO SICK PAY. 1881 01:05:29,001 --> 01:05:31,000 AND THAT IS PARTICULARLY 1882 01:05:31,001 --> 01:05:33,000 RELEVANT RIGHT NOW, THE 1883 01:05:33,001 --> 01:05:34,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MINNESOTA, WHEN 1884 01:05:34,001 --> 01:05:37,000 YOU CONSIDER THE BEGINNING OF 1885 01:05:37,001 --> 01:05:38,000 THIS GLOBAL PANDEMIC, THE SWINE 1886 01:05:38,001 --> 01:05:41,000 FLU. 1887 01:05:41,001 --> 01:05:42,000 WE HAD SCHOOL CLOSINGS ALL 1888 01:05:42,001 --> 01:05:44,000 ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 1889 01:05:44,001 --> 01:05:48,000 PARENTS, OF COURSE, WERE FORCED 1890 01:05:48,001 --> 01:05:52,000 TO TAKE OFF WORK TO TAKE CARE OF 1891 01:05:52,001 --> 01:05:54,000 THEIR CHILDREN BECAUSE OF THE 1892 01:05:54,001 --> 01:05:56,000 QUARANTINE CONDITIONS THAT WERE 1893 01:05:56,001 --> 01:05:59,000 ORDERED BY HEALTH DEPARTMENTS. 1894 01:05:59,001 --> 01:06:01,000 AND YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY DID THEY 1895 01:06:01,001 --> 01:06:04,000 DO IT BECAUSE THEY WERE 1896 01:06:04,001 --> 01:06:06,000 RESPONDING TO A POTENTIAL HEALTH 1897 01:06:06,001 --> 01:06:08,000 CRIS, BUT THESE FAMILIES 1898 01:06:08,001 --> 01:06:11,000 LIVING ON A BUDGET N 1899 01:06:11,001 --> 01:06:15,000 DEAL WITH THE DECREASED WAGES 1900 01:06:15,001 --> 01:06:20,000 THAT THEY ARE EXPERIENCING. 1901 01:06:20,001 --> 01:06:22,000 AND, OF COURSE, WHEN CHILDREN 1902 01:06:22,001 --> 01:06:27,000 BECOME ILL, PARENTS CAN'T AFFORD 1903 01:06:27,001 --> 01:06:31,000 TO MISS WORK, SO THEY GO TO WORK 1904 01:06:31,001 --> 01:06:32,000 ANYWAY AND INFECT OTHER PEOPLE 1905 01:06:32,001 --> 01:06:35,000 AT WORK. 1906 01:06:35,001 --> 01:06:36,000 THEY SEND THEIR KIDS TO DAYCARE 1907 01:06:36,001 --> 01:06:39,000 AND INFECT OTHER CHILDREN. 1908 01:06:39,001 --> 01:06:40,000 AND, OF COURSE, EMPLOYERS 1909 01:06:40,001 --> 01:06:43,000 SUFFER, MANY OF THEM WHO ARE 1910 01:06:43,001 --> 01:06:45,000 SMALL BUSINESSES BECAUSE THEY 1911 01:06:45,001 --> 01:06:47,000 FIND THERE'S A LOSS OF 1912 01:06:47,001 --> 01:06:48,000 PRODUCTIVITY. 1913 01:06:48,001 --> 01:06:51,000 ONE OF THE GREATEST LOSS 1914 01:06:51,001 --> 01:06:52,000 P 1915 01:06:52,001 --> 01:06:54,000 EMPLOYEES WHO ARE SICK. 1916 01:06:54,001 --> 01:06:57,000 AND THEY BECOME SICK BECAUSE 1917 01:06:57,001 --> 01:06:58,000 OTHER WORKERS ARE UNWILLING TO 1918 01:06:58,001 --> 01:07:01,000 LOSE A DAY'S PAY BECAUSE OF A 1919 01:07:01,001 --> 01:07:03,000 LITTLE COLD THAT TURNS OUT TO BE 1920 01:07:03,001 --> 01:07:06,000 EITHER THE SWINE FLU OR MAYBE 1921 01:07:06,001 --> 01:07:09,000 EVEN WORSE, THE REGULAR FLU, 1922 01:07:09,001 --> 01:07:10,000 WHICH IS QUITE DEADLY AND QUITE 1923 01:07:10,001 --> 01:07:13,000 CONTAGIOUS. 1924 01:07:13,001 --> 01:07:16,000 THIS ALL DRIVES MEDICAL COSTS. 1925 01:07:16,001 --> 01:07:18,000 AND GOD FORBID THAT A SPOUSE OR 1926 01:07:18,001 --> 01:07:21,000 A CHILD FALLS GRAVELY ILL OR IS 1927 01:07:21,001 --> 01:07:24,000 SERIOUSLY INJURED BECAUSE THAT 1928 01:07:24,001 --> 01:07:26,000 WORKER THEN HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO 1929 01:07:26,001 --> 01:07:27,000 IMMEDIATELY SEEK MEDICAL HELP 1930 01:07:27,001 --> 01:07:31,000 AND TAKE THE LOVED ONES TO A 1931 01:07:31,001 --> 01:07:33,000 DOCTOR OR HOSPITAL AND MORE 1932 01:07:33,001 --> 01:07:34,000 ABSENCES OCCURS AND THEY END UP 1933 01:07:34,001 --> 01:07:36,000 LOSING THEIR JOBS PERHAPS, 1934 01:07:36,001 --> 01:07:39,000 BECAUSE SMALL BUSINESSES CAN'T 1935 01:07:39,001 --> 01:07:43,000 AFFORD TO HAVE THEIR BUSINESSES 1936 01:07:43,001 --> 01:07:51,000 SHUTTERED WHILE PEOPLE ARE ILL. 1937 01:07:51,001 --> 01:07:53,000 IN MY DISTRICT, 51% OF THE 1938 01:07:53,001 --> 01:07:54,000 AFRICAN MALE POPULATION IS 1939 01:07:54,001 --> 01:07:56,000 JOBLESS. 1940 01:07:56,001 --> 01:07:58,000 AND IT'S THE LARGEST RACIAL 1941 01:07:58,001 --> 01:07:59,000 DISPAR 1942 01:07:59,001 --> 01:08:03,000 POVERTY IN THE COUNTRY. 1943 01:08:03,001 --> 01:08:04,000 43% OF THE CITS WORKERS EARN 1944 01:08:04,001 --> 01:08:11,000 LESS THAN $20,000 A YEAR. 1945 01:08:11,001 --> 01:08:13,000 AND MANY ARE AMONG THE 122,000 1946 01:08:13,001 --> 01:08:16,000 WHICH MAKE UP 47% OF THE PRIVATE 1947 01:08:16,001 --> 01:08:17,000 WORK FORCE WHO DO NOT HAVE SICK 1948 01:08:17,001 --> 01:08:19,000 DAYS. 1949 01:08:19,001 --> 01:08:21,000 LAST YEAR IN MY DISTRICT, THE 1950 01:08:21,001 --> 01:08:24,000 CITY OF MILWAUKEE APPROVED A 1951 01:08:24,001 --> 01:08:25,000 BINDING REFERENDUM ON THE 2008 1952 01:08:25,001 --> 01:08:30,000 BALLOT THAT CALLED FOR PRIVATE 1953 01:08:30,001 --> 01:08:32,000 EMPLOYERS IN THE CITY TO PROVIDE 1954 01:08:32,001 --> 01:08:36,000 PAID SICK LEAVE FOR ALL WORKERS. 1955 01:08:36,001 --> 01:08:38,000 AND THIS WAS IN DUE IN PART BY 1956 01:08:38,001 --> 01:08:40,000 THE DILIGENT EFFORT OF THE 1957 01:08:40,001 --> 01:08:42,000 UNIONS AND THE COMMUNITY GROUPS 1958 01:08:42,001 --> 01:08:44,000 LED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 1959 01:08:44,001 --> 01:08:47,000 OF WORKING WOMEN, NINE TO FIVE. 1960 01:08:47,001 --> 01:08:48,000 AND SO NOW, MILWAUKEE, 1961 01:08:48,001 --> 01:08:51,000 WISCONSIN, IS NOW THE ONLY -- IS 1962 01:08:51,001 --> 01:08:53,000 ONLY ONE OF THREE CITIES IN THE 1963 01:08:53,001 --> 01:08:56,000 COUNTRY TO REQUIRE PRIVATE 1964 01:08:56,001 --> 01:08:57,000 EMPLOYERS TO PVIDE PAID SICK 1965 01:08:57,001 --> 01:08:59,000 DAYS. 1966 01:08:59,001 --> 01:09:02,000 IT'S SMART ECONOMICALLY, BECAUSE 1967 01:09:02,001 --> 01:09:04,000 THE LACK OF PAID SICK DAYS IS 1968 01:09:04,001 --> 01:09:05,000 HURTING MILWAUKEE'S ECONOMIC 1969 01:09:05,001 --> 01:09:06,000 DEVELOPMENT. 1970 01:09:06,001 --> 01:09:08,000 MR. ELLISON: WOULD THE 1971 01:09:08,001 --> 01:09:09,000 GENTLELADY YIELD? 1972 01:09:09,001 --> 01:09:11,000 MS. MOORE: I WOULD DEFINITELY 1973 01:09:11,001 --> 01:09:12,000 YIELD. 1974 01:09:12,001 --> 01:09:13,000 MR. ELLISON: CONGRESSWOMAN 1975 01:09:13,001 --> 01:09:15,000 MOORE, IS THAT WHY IT MIGHT BE A 1976 01:09:15,001 --> 01:09:19,000 GOOD IDEA TO SUPPORT THE HEALTHY 1977 01:09:19,001 --> 01:09:22,000 FAMILIES ACT, WHICH IS H.R. 1978 01:09:22,001 --> 01:09:25,000 1542, WHICH IS CRITICAL TO 1979 01:09:25,001 --> 01:09:27,000 GUARANTEE WORKERS UP TO SEVEN 1980 01:09:27,001 --> 01:09:30,000 PAID SICK DAYS A YEAR? 1981 01:09:30,001 --> 01:09:32,000 I YIELD BACK TO THE GENTLELADY. 1982 01:09:32,001 --> 01:09:33,000 MS. MOORE: THANK YOU FOR 1983 01:09:33,001 --> 01:09:34,000 YIELDING. 1984 01:09:34,001 --> 01:09:36,000 THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT PIECE 1985 01:09:36,001 --> 01:09:39,000 OF LEGISLATION AUTHORED BY 1986 01:09:39,001 --> 01:09:41,000 CONGRESSWOMAN ROSA DELAURO FROM 1987 01:09:41,001 --> 01:09:44,000 CONNECTICUT AND I'M SO PROUD TO 1988 01:09:44,001 --> 01:09:46,000 BE AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR. 1989 01:09:46,001 --> 01:09:48,000 THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. 1990 01:09:48,001 --> 01:09:49,000 YOU KNOW, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT 1991 01:09:49,001 --> 01:09:52,000 HAPPENS. 1992 01:09:52,001 --> 01:09:55,000 THE REALITY IS THAT WHEN PEOPLE 1993 01:09:55,001 --> 01:10:01,000 DON'T HAVE PAID SICK TIME, YOU 1994 01:10:01,001 --> 01:10:04,000 KNOW, THEY CHEAT, THEY LIE WHEN 1995 01:10:04,001 --> 01:10:07,000 THEYE REALLY SICK -- YOU KNOW, 1996 01:10:07,001 --> 01:10:11,000 THEY DON'T COME TO WORK ANYWAY. 1997 01:10:11,001 --> 01:10:13,000 AND WORSE, THEY NEGLECT BASIC 1998 01:10:13,001 --> 01:10:16,000 HEALTH CARE NEEDS. 1999 01:10:16,001 --> 01:10:17,000 THEY DON'T GET THEIR 2000 01:10:17,001 --> 01:10:20,000 VACCATED. 2001 01:10:20,001 --> 01:10:23,000 THEY DON'T CARE FOR THEIR TEETH. 2002 01:10:23,001 --> 01:10:27,000 THEY DON'T CATCH DISEASES AND 2003 01:10:27,001 --> 01:10:28,000 GET BASIC HEALTH CARE LIKE 2004 01:10:28,001 --> 01:10:29,000 MAMMOGRAMS. 2005 01:10:29,001 --> 01:10:31,000 THEY DON'T CATCH THE DISEASES 2006 01:10:31,001 --> 01:10:33,000 EARLY WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE 2007 01:10:33,001 --> 01:10:35,000 BUILT-IN SICK DAYS. 2008 01:10:35,001 --> 01:10:36,000 AND YOU KNOW, THERE IS NO 2009 01:10:36,001 --> 01:10:40,000 EMPLOYER ON THIS PLANET THAT 2010 01:10:40,001 --> 01:10:41,000 WOULD WITNESSINGLY, WITNESSINGLY 2011 01:10:41,001 --> 01:10:46,000 DENY SOMEONE BASIC HEALTH CARE 2012 01:10:46,001 --> 01:10:47,000 KNOWING THAT AN EARLY DETECTION 2013 01:10:47,001 --> 01:10:51,000 OF CANCER WOULD HAVE SAVED THEIR 2014 01:10:51,001 --> 01:10:53,000 DIDN'T HAVE PAID SICK DAYS. 2015 01:10:53,001 --> 01:10:54,000 AND I YIELD BACK TO THE 2016 01:10:54,001 --> 01:10:57,000 GENTLEMAN. 2017 01:10:57,001 --> 01:10:58,000 MR. ELLISON: I QUITE AGREE WITH 2018 01:10:58,001 --> 01:10:59,000 THE GENTLELADYROM WISCONSIN, 2019 01:10:59,001 --> 01:11:02,000 WHO POINTED OUT THAT THE HEALTHY 2020 01:11:02,001 --> 01:11:03,000 FAMILIES ACT, A GREAT PIECE OF 2021 01:11:03,001 --> 01:11:05,000 LEGISLATION, SOMETHING THAT IS 2022 01:11:05,001 --> 01:11:08,000 PROGRESSIVE, SOMETHING THAT 2023 01:11:08,001 --> 01:11:09,000 MAKES SENSE FOR AMERICA, MUCH 2024 01:11:09,001 --> 01:11:13,000 LIKE LEGISLATION OF THE PAST 2025 01:11:13,001 --> 01:11:15,000 THAT SUPPORTED WORKERS' RIGHTS. 2026 01:11:15,001 --> 01:11:16,000 AND WHAT THIS PIECE OF 2027 01:11:16,001 --> 01:11:19,000 LEGISLATION WOULD DO FOR 2028 01:11:19,001 --> 01:11:20,000 AMERICANS IS IT WOULD RECOVER -- 2029 01:11:20,001 --> 01:11:22,000 ALLOW AMERICANS TO RECOVER FROM 2030 01:11:22,001 --> 01:11:25,000 SHORT-TERM ILLNESS AND CARE FOR 2031 01:11:25,001 --> 01:11:27,000 A SICK FAMILY MEMBER, ALLOW 2032 01:11:27,001 --> 01:11:29,000 AMERICANS TO SEEK ROUTINE 2033 01:11:29,001 --> 01:11:31,000 MEDICAL CARE OR TO SEEK 2034 01:11:31,001 --> 01:11:34,000 ASSISTANCE RELATED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 2035 01:11:34,001 --> 01:11:36,000 NOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK, OH 2036 01:11:36,001 --> 01:11:38,000 MY GOD THAT'S GOING TO COST US A 2037 01:11:38,001 --> 01:11:39,000 LOT OF MONEY. 2038 01:11:39,001 --> 01:11:41,000 YOU KNOW WHAT? 2039 01:11:41,001 --> 01:11:43,000 IF PEOPLE ARE THAT SICK OR IN 2040 01:11:43,001 --> 01:11:45,000 SERIOUS DIRE STRAITS, THEY ARE 2041 01:11:45,001 --> 01:11:47,000 TAKING THE TIME OFF ANYWAY. 2042 01:11:47,001 --> 01:11:51,000 YOU ARE NOT PLANNING FOR IT. IT'S NOT IN THE SCHEDULE. 2043 01:11:51,001 --> 01:11:52,000 AND THERE'S NO ACCOMMODATION 2044 01:11:52,001 --> 01:11:55,000 WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT IF SOMEONE 2045 01:11:55,001 --> 01:11:57,000 SAYS I HAVE TO TAKE THE DAY OFF 2046 01:11:57,001 --> 01:11:59,000 AND I HAVE SEVEN OF THESE DAYS I 2047 01:11:59,001 --> 01:12:01,000 CAN TAKE, THEN WHAT HAPPENS IS 2048 01:12:01,001 --> 01:12:03,000 YOU HAVE GREATER PRODUCTIVITY, 2049 01:12:03,001 --> 01:12:04,000 BECAUSE, WHAT? 2050 01:12:04,001 --> 01:12:07,000 WORKERS ARE TAKING THE TIME OFF 2051 01:12:07,001 --> 01:12:10,000 TO GET WELL, THEY ARE TAKING 2052 01:12:10,001 --> 01:12:13,000 THEIR KIDS TO THE VACCINATIONS. 2053 01:12:13,001 --> 01:12:15,000 WORKERS ARE ENGAGING IN 2054 01:12:15,001 --> 01:12:18,000 PREVENTATIVE HEALTH CARE, WHICH 2055 01:12:18,001 --> 01:12:22,000 MEANS THEY AREN'T GOING TO TAKE 2056 01:12:22,001 --> 01:12:24,000 EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME OFF AND 2057 01:12:24,001 --> 01:12:25,000 INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY. 2058 01:12:25,001 --> 01:12:27,000 BY EXPENDING THE MONEY TO 2059 01:12:27,001 --> 01:12:29,000 PROVIDE THE SEVEN SICK DAYS THAT 2060 01:12:29,001 --> 01:12:31,000 ARE CALLED FOR UNDER THE HEALTHY 2061 01:12:31,001 --> 01:12:32,000 FAMILIES ACT, BUSINESS WOULD 2062 01:12:32,001 --> 01:12:33,000 SAVE MONEY. 2063 01:12:33,001 --> 01:12:35,000 BUSINESS WOULD BE BETTER OFF, 2064 01:12:35,001 --> 01:12:36,000 BECAUSE WE WOULD HAVE GREATER 2065 01:12:36,001 --> 01:12:38,000 PRODUCTIVITY AND A HEALTHIER 2066 01:12:38,001 --> 01:12:39,000 WORK FORCE OVER TIME. 2067 01:12:39,001 --> 01:12:44,000 BUT IT'S WHAT MY MOTHER WOULD 2068 01:12:44,001 --> 01:12:47,000 CALL, CONGRESSWOMAN, IT WOULD BE 2069 01:12:47,001 --> 01:12:50,000 FOOLISH TO DENY THIS LEGISLA 2070 01:12:50,001 --> 01:12:51,000 BUT WHAT MY MOTHER WOULD ALSO 2071 01:12:51,001 --> 01:12:53,000 CALL, SAYING AN OUNCE OF 2072 01:12:53,001 --> 01:12:56,000 PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF 2073 01:12:56,001 --> 01:12:57,000 CURE IF WE WERE TO HAVE A GREAT 2074 01:12:57,001 --> 01:12:59,000 PIECE OF LEGISLATION LIKE THE 2075 01:12:59,001 --> 01:13:00,000 HEALTHY FAMILIES ACT. 2076 01:13:00,001 --> 01:13:05,000 AND AS YOU POINTED OUT, AS THE 2077 01:13:05,001 --> 01:13:08,000 FEAR OF THE MISSED AND 2078 01:13:08,001 --> 01:13:19,000 INACCURATELY CALLED SWINE FLU 2079 01:13:19,001 --> 01:13:22,000 AND SHOULD BE CALLED H1N1 VIR 2080 01:13:22,001 --> 01:13:24,000 RUSS, IN TIMES LIKE THIS, THIS 2081 01:13:24,001 --> 01:13:28,000 -- VIRUS, IT WOULD BE A GREAT 2082 01:13:28,001 --> 01:13:30,000 IDEA AND IT WOULD HELP MOMS OUT, WOULDN'T IT? 2083 01:13:30,001 --> 01:13:31,000 MS. MOORE: ABSOLUTELY. 2084 01:13:31,001 --> 01:13:35,000 AND THERE IS A CLASS ISSUE HERE. 2085 01:13:35,001 --> 01:13:36,000 YOU KNOW, 79% OF LOW-INCOME 2086 01:13:36,001 --> 01:13:39,000 WORKERS, NEARLY HALF OF OUR 2087 01:13:39,001 --> 01:13:40,000 PRIVATE SECTOR WORKERS HAVE NO 2088 01:13:40,001 --> 01:13:42,000 PAID SICK LEAVE. 2089 01:13:42,001 --> 01:13:45,000 I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE TAKE 2090 01:13:45,001 --> 01:13:48,000 FOR GRANTED WHEN WE MOVE UP THE 2091 01:13:48,001 --> 01:13:51,000 LADDER THAT WE CAN GO TO THE 2092 01:13:51,001 --> 01:13:53,000 DENTIST OR HAVE GOOD PRENATAL 2093 01:13:53,001 --> 01:13:55,000 CARE WHEN WE EXPAND OUR 2094 01:13:55,001 --> 01:13:57,000 FAMILIES. 2095 01:13:57,001 --> 01:14:02,000 BUT A UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 2096 01:14:02,001 --> 01:14:05,000 SURVEY IN 2008 FOUND THAT ONE IN 2097 01:14:05,001 --> 01:14:07,000 SIX WORKERS WERE FIRED FOR 2098 01:14:07,001 --> 01:14:10,000 TAKING PERSONAL TIME OFF FOR 2099 01:14:10,001 --> 01:14:11,000 ILLNESS FOR THEMSELVES OR A SICK 2100 01:14:11,001 --> 01:14:16,000 RELATIVE. 2101 01:14:16,001 --> 01:14:17,000 THAT IS ABSOLUTELY EGREGIOUS. 2102 01:14:17,001 --> 01:14:18,000 IT'S PENNY WISE AND POUND 2103 01:14:18,001 --> 01:14:20,000 FOOLISH. 2104 01:14:20,001 --> 01:14:21,000 WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU OWN A SMALL 2105 01:14:21,001 --> 01:14:23,000 BUSINESS, A SMALL DRY CLEANER 2106 01:14:23,001 --> 01:14:26,000 AND SOMEONE HAS THE FLU AND THEY 2107 01:14:26,001 --> 01:14:28,000 COME TO WORK AND INFECT 2108 01:14:28,001 --> 01:14:29,000 EVERYONE? 2109 01:14:29,001 --> 01:14:33,000 THEN YOU HAVE TO SHUTTER THE 2110 01:14:33,001 --> 01:14:34,000 BUSINESS BECAUSE, YOU, IN FACT, 2111 01:14:34,001 --> 01:14:37,000 CAN'T RUN A BUSINESS LIKE THAT 2112 01:14:37,001 --> 01:14:39,000 YOURSELF, INSTEAD OF ALLOWING 2113 01:14:39,001 --> 01:14:41,000 THAT PERSON TO STAY HOME DURING 2114 01:14:41,001 --> 01:14:44,000 THAT INFECTIOUS PERIOD OF TIME. 2115 01:14:44,001 --> 01:14:45,000 SO YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, 2116 01:14:45,001 --> 01:14:48,000 GENTLEMAN. 2117 01:14:48,001 --> 01:14:50,000 AND I YIELD BACK TO YO 2118 01:14:50,001 --> 01:14:52,000 MR. ELLISON: AGAIN, I DO THANK 2119 01:14:52,001 --> 01:14:53,000 THE GENTLELA FOR NAILING THIS 2120 01:14:53,001 --> 01:14:55,000 POINT. 2121 01:14:55,001 --> 01:14:56,000 IT'S SO IMPORTANT. 2122 01:14:56,001 --> 01:14:57,000 IT'S PROGRESSIVE AND IT'S PART 2123 01:14:57,001 --> 01:14:59,000 OF THE PROGRESSIVE VISION THAT 2124 01:14:59,001 --> 01:15:01,000 WE WOULD HAVE AN IMPORTANT PIECE 2125 01:15:01,001 --> 01:15:03,000 OF LEGISLATION THAT WOULD REALLY 2126 01:15:03,001 --> 01:15:05,000 HELP AMERICANS LIKE THE HEALTHY 2127 01:15:05,001 --> 01:15:08,000 FAMILIES ACT, AT A TIME WHEN WE 2128 01:15:08,001 --> 01:15:10,000 ARE CONCERNED ABOUT SICKNESS AND 2129 01:15:10,001 --> 01:15:11,000 ILLNESS, THIS IS THE BILL THAT 2130 01:15:11,001 --> 01:15:12,000 WOULD BE EMBRACED BY A 2131 01:15:12,001 --> 01:15:15,000 PROGRESSIVE VISION, A BILL THAT 2132 01:15:15,001 --> 01:15:19,000 WOULD SAY, HEY, LOOK YOU GUYS, 2133 01:15:19,001 --> 01:15:20,000 LET'S GIVE SEVEN PAID SICK DAYS 2134 01:15:20,001 --> 01:15:23,000 TO WORKERS. 2135 01:15:23,001 --> 01:15:24,000 THIS IS NOT UNUSUAL TO WHAT 2136 01:15:24,001 --> 01:15:27,000 WORKERS GET IN EUROPE. 2137 01:15:27,001 --> 01:15:28,000 YOU WOULD HAVE MORE HEALTHY AND 2138 01:15:28,001 --> 01:15:30,000 PRODUCTIVE WORKERS AND AS YOU 2139 01:15:30,001 --> 01:15:32,000 POTED OUT, THE GENTLELADY FROM 2140 01:15:32,001 --> 01:15:33,000 WISCONSIN, CONGRESSWOMAN MOORE, 2141 01:15:33,001 --> 01:15:35,000 WE WOULD HAVE PEOPLE WHO WOULD 2142 01:15:35,001 --> 01:15:37,000 GO TO THE DOCTOR RATHER THAN 2143 01:15:37,001 --> 01:15:40,000 COME IN WHILE THEY ARE SICK. 2144 01:15:40,001 --> 01:15:41,000 YOU ALREADY HIT A NUMBER OF 2145 01:15:41,001 --> 01:15:43,000 POINTS ALREADY, BUT ACCORDING TO 2146 01:15:43,001 --> 01:15:46,000 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO STUDY 2147 01:15:46,001 --> 01:15:48,000 THAT YOU REFERRED TO, ONE IN SIX 2148 01:15:48,001 --> 01:15:50,000 WORKERS REPORT THEY OR A FAMILY 2149 01:15:50,001 --> 01:15:52,000 MEMBER HAVE BEEN FIRED OR 2150 01:15:52,001 --> 01:15:54,000 SUSPENDED FOR TAKING TIME OFF 2151 01:15:54,001 --> 01:15:55,000 BECAUSE OF PERSONAL ILLNESS OR 2152 01:15:55,001 --> 01:15:59,000 TO TAKE CARE OF A SICK RELATIVE. 2153 01:15:59,001 --> 01:16:00,000 THE LACK OF PAID SICK DAYS IS A 2154 01:16:00,001 --> 01:16:03,000 MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN. 2155 01:16:03,001 --> 01:16:05,000 AS WE TRY TO SPREAD -- EXCUSE 2156 01:16:05,001 --> 01:16:11,000 ME, AS WE TRY TO PREVENT THE 2157 01:16:11,001 --> 01:16:12,000 SPREAD OF THE 2158 01:16:12,001 --> 01:16:14,000 FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND 2159 01:16:14,001 --> 01:16:15,000 PREVENTION HAS ISSUED IMPORTANT 2160 01:16:15,001 --> 01:16:17,000 GUIDELINES THAT ARE SOUND AND 2161 01:16:17,001 --> 01:16:18,000 PRUDENT. 2162 01:16:18,001 --> 01:16:20,000 IF YOU GET SICK, STAY HOME. 2163 01:16:20,001 --> 01:16:21,000 PRUDENT. 2164 01:16:21,001 --> 01:16:22,000 IF YOU GET SICK, STAY HOME. 2165 01:16:22,001 --> 01:16:23,000 IF YOU GET SICK, DON'T GO TO 2166 01:16:23,001 --> 01:16:24,000 WORK OR SCHOOL. 2167 01:16:24,001 --> 01:16:26,000 LIMIT CONTACT WITH OTHER PEOPLE. 2168 01:16:26,001 --> 01:16:28,000 BUT HOW CAN YOU DO THIS, I ASK 2169 01:16:28,001 --> 01:16:29,000 THE GENTLELADY FROM THE GREAT 2170 01:16:29,001 --> 01:16:31,000 STATE OF WISCONSIN, IF IT'S 2171 01:16:31,001 --> 01:16:33,000 GOING TO COST YOU ECONOMICALLY, 2172 01:16:33,001 --> 01:16:34,000 IF YOU'RE ALREADY CLOSE TO THE 2173 01:16:34,001 --> 01:16:37,000 EDGE OF ECONOMICALLY, IF THAT 2174 01:16:37,001 --> 01:16:38,000 JOB THAT YOU'RE ON SAYS THAT YOU 2175 01:16:38,001 --> 01:16:40,000 DON'T HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE, 2176 01:16:40,001 --> 01:16:42,000 YOU'RE PAID BY THE HOUR AND YOU 2177 01:16:42,001 --> 01:16:43,000 KNOW THAT IF YOU DON'T WORK, YOU 2178 01:16:43,001 --> 01:16:45,000 DON'T GET NO MONEY, YOU DON'T 2179 01:16:45,001 --> 01:16:47,000 GET PAID, WHAT THEN DO YOU DO IF 2180 01:16:47,001 --> 01:16:49,000 YOU DO NOT HAVE A BILL LIKE THE 2181 01:16:49,001 --> 01:16:50,000 HEALTHY FAMILIES ACT? 2182 01:16:50,001 --> 01:16:52,000 I THINK IT'S IMPORTA 2183 01:16:52,001 --> 01:16:53,000 GET SUCH LEGISLATION. 2184 01:16:53,001 --> 01:16:55,000 AND I YIELD BACK TO THE 2185 01:16:55,001 --> 01:16:58,000 GENTLELADY. 2186 01:16:58,001 --> 01:17:00,000 . 2187 01:17:00,001 --> 01:17:01,000 MS. MOORE: IT'S HUMAN NATURE. 2188 01:17:01,001 --> 01:17:03,000 PEOPLE MAKE ECONOMIC DECISIONS 2189 01:17:03,001 --> 01:17:04,000 AND THEY PRIORITIZE, 2190 01:17:04,001 --> 01:17:06,000 UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE ECONOMIC 2191 01:17:06,001 --> 01:17:10,000 DECISIONS OVER HEALTH DECISIONS. 2192 01:17:10,001 --> 01:17:13,000 I THINK PEOPLE FEEL LUCKY THAT 2193 01:17:13,001 --> 01:17:14,000 MAYBE THEY WON'T SPREAD DISEASE, 2194 01:17:14,001 --> 01:17:16,000 THAT MAYBE IF THEY GIVE THEIR 2195 01:17:16,001 --> 01:17:18,000 KID A COUPLE OF ASPIRIN THAT 2196 01:17:18,001 --> 01:17:19,000 THEY'LL FEEL BETTER. 2197 01:17:19,001 --> 01:17:21,000 THEY COULD JUST SEND THEM ON TO 2198 01:17:21,001 --> 01:17:24,000 SCHOOL ANYWAY BECAUSE THE 2199 01:17:24,001 --> 01:17:27,000 CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING OFF WORK 2200 01:17:27,001 --> 01:17:28,000 ARE VERY EMINENT. 2201 01:17:28,001 --> 01:17:30,000 THEY WON'T BE BE ABLE TO MAKE 2202 01:17:30,001 --> 01:17:32,000 THIS MONTH'S RENT. 2203 01:17:32,001 --> 01:17:34,000 REMEMBER I SAID 79% OF THOSE 2204 01:17:34,001 --> 01:17:37,000 FOLK WHO HAVE NO PAID SICK TIME 2205 01:17:37,001 --> 01:17:41,000 ARE LOW-WAGE WORKERS. 2206 01:17:41,001 --> 01:17:47,000 THAT THEY CAN'T RISK LOSING THAT 2207 01:17:47,001 --> 01:17:48,000 MONEY, THAT $80 THAT DAY, THAT 2208 01:17:48,001 --> 01:17:50,000 $65 THAT DAY. 2209 01:17:50,001 --> 01:17:52,000 THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO DO 2210 01:17:52,001 --> 01:17:55,000 THEY CAN'T -- THEY DON'T HAVE A 2211 01:17:55,001 --> 01:17:57,000 RELATIVE OR A NEIGHBOR ORRIEND 2212 01:17:57,001 --> 01:17:58,000 WHO CAN STAY HOME WITH THEIR 2213 01:17:58,001 --> 01:18:00,000 CHILDREN WHILE THEY ARE SICK SO 2214 01:18:00,001 --> 01:18:02,000 THEY CAN GO TO WORK. 2215 01:18:02,001 --> 01:18:04,000 SO THEY JUST ROLL THE DICE. 2216 01:18:04,001 --> 01:18:08,000 THEY ROLL THE DICE. 2217 01:18:08,001 --> 01:18:10,000 AND AGAIN THAT LUMP THAT JUST 2218 01:18:10,001 --> 01:18:14,000 DIDN'T FEEL QUITE RIGHT IN THEIR 2219 01:18:14,001 --> 01:18:16,000 BREAST, THEY IGNORE IT AND IT 2220 01:18:16,001 --> 01:18:17,000 SHOWS UP IN SO MANY OTHER DATA 2221 01:18:17,001 --> 01:18:21,000 AND STATISTICS. 2222 01:18:21,001 --> 01:18:28,000 YOU FIND POOR PEOPLE WHO SUCCUMB 2223 01:18:28,001 --> 01:18:29,000 TO ILLNESSES AND DIE O DISEASES 2224 01:18:29,001 --> 01:18:31,000 THAT CLD BE CURED. 2225 01:18:31,001 --> 01:18:32,000 NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE 2226 01:18:32,001 --> 01:18:34,000 SUSCEPTIBLE TO DEASES, BECAUSE 2227 01:18:34,001 --> 01:18:35,000 THEY DON'T CATCH THEM EARLY 2228 01:18:35,001 --> 01:18:36,000 ENOUGH. 2229 01:18:36,001 --> 01:18:37,000 OF COURSE THAT RAISES THE COST 2230 01:18:37,001 --> 01:18:38,000 OF HEALTH CARE. 2231 01:18:38,001 --> 01:18:40,000 WE HEAR OUR COLLEAGUES TALKING 2232 01:18:40,001 --> 01:18:41,000 ABOUT THE HIGH COST OF HEALTH 2233 01:18:41,001 --> 01:18:43,000 CARE EARLIER. 2234 01:18:43,001 --> 01:18:45,000 WELL, OF COURSE. 2235 01:18:45,001 --> 01:18:47,000 HEALTH CARE COSTS MORE. 2236 01:18:47,001 --> 01:18:49,000 ONCE YOUR KIDNEYS FAIL AND YOU 2237 01:18:49,001 --> 01:18:53,000 END UP ON DIALYSIS BECAUSE YOU 2238 01:18:53,001 --> 01:18:54,000 DIDN'T HAVE A SIMPLE HIGH BLOOD 2239 01:18:54,001 --> 01:18:56,000 PRESSURE PILL THAT COULD HAVE 2240 01:18:56,001 --> 01:18:59,000 BEEN DIAOSED EARLIER, OF 2241 01:18:59,001 --> 01:19:01,000 COURSE I COSTS MORE WHEN YOU 2242 01:19:01,001 --> 01:19:02,000 DON'T CATCH A CANCER AT ITS 2243 01:19:02,001 --> 01:19:08,000 EARLIER STAGES. 2244 01:19:08,001 --> 01:19:11,000 OF COURSE IT COSTS MORE WHEN 2245 01:19:11,001 --> 01:19:14,000 DISEASES ARE ALLOWED TO FESTER 2246 01:19:14,001 --> 01:19:17,000 TO A POINT THAT YOU WIND UP IN A 2247 01:19:17,001 --> 01:19:18,000 VERY EXPENSIVE AMBULANCE AND AN 2248 01:19:18,001 --> 01:19:21,000 EMERGENCY ROOM. 2249 01:19:21,001 --> 01:19:22,000 INSTEAD OF A SENSIBLE DOCTOR'S 2250 01:19:22,001 --> 01:19:23,000 VISIT. 2251 01:19:23,001 --> 01:19:25,000 WE HAVE HAD CHILDREN IN THIS 2252 01:19:25,001 --> 01:19:27,000 COUNTRY WHO HAVE DIED FROM WHAT 2253 01:19:27,001 --> 01:19:28,000 STARTED OUT TO BE AN ABSCESSED 2254 01:19:28,001 --> 01:19:29,000 TOOTH. 2255 01:19:29,001 --> 01:19:31,000 SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN 2256 01:19:31,001 --> 01:19:33,000 PREVENTED WITH REGULAR VISITS TO 2257 01:19:33,001 --> 01:19:36,000 THE DENTIST. 2258 01:19:36,001 --> 01:19:40,000 BUT PARENTS, WE HAVE SO MUCH 2259 01:19:40,001 --> 01:19:41,000 PROOF THAT WHEN YOU INCREASE 2260 01:19:41,001 --> 01:19:44,000 CO-PAYMENTS, WHEN THERE ARE ANY 2261 01:19:44,001 --> 01:19:48,000 ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF SEEKING 2262 01:19:48,001 --> 01:19:50,000 HEALTH CARE AND NOT HAVING PAID 2263 01:19:50,001 --> 01:19:51,000 SICK DAYS IS AN ECONOMIC 2264 01:19:51,001 --> 01:19:54,000 CONSEQUENCE, WHENER THERE ARE 2265 01:19:54,001 --> 01:19:56,000 ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES, PEOPLE 2266 01:19:56,001 --> 01:19:59,000 DELAY HEALTH CARE UNTIL IT 2267 01:19:59,001 --> 01:20:01,000 BECOMES A FIRE. 2268 01:20:01,001 --> 01:20:04,000 MR. ELLISON: IF THE GENTLELADY 2269 01:20:04,001 --> 01:20:05,000 YO 2270 01:20:05,001 --> 01:20:07,000 WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS SO VERY IMPORTANT. 2271 01:20:07,001 --> 01:20:09,000 IT'S PART AFTER PROGRESSIVE VISION FOR AMERICA. 2272 01:20:09,001 --> 01:20:11,000 IT'S PART OF THE IDEA THAT, HEY, 2273 01:20:11,001 --> 01:20:12,000 WE ALL DO BETTER WHEN WE ALL DO 2274 01:20:12,001 --> 01:20:14,000 BETTER. 2275 01:20:14,001 --> 01:20:16,000 YOU'RE NOT A SUCKER OR YOU'RE 2276 01:20:16,001 --> 01:20:17,000 NOT A PERSON WHO IS GULLIBLE IF 2277 01:20:17,001 --> 01:20:19,000 YOU BELIEVE IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO 2278 01:20:19,001 --> 01:20:20,000 LOOK OUT FOR YOUR FELLOW 2279 01:20:20,001 --> 01:20:22,000 AMERICANS. 2280 01:20:22,001 --> 01:20:24,000 YOU'RE A PERSON WHO MAY BE A 2281 01:20:24,001 --> 01:20:25,000 VERY SAVVY BUSINESSPERSON 2282 01:20:25,001 --> 01:20:27,000 BECAUSE YOU KNOW BY SUPPORTING 2283 01:20:27,001 --> 01:20:29,000 THE HEALTHY FAMILIES ACT, IT MAY 2284 01:20:29,001 --> 01:20:32,000 COST YOU A LITTLE BIT TO GIVE 2285 01:20:32,001 --> 01:20:33,000 PAID SICK LEAVE DAYS FOR SOME OF 2286 01:20:33,001 --> 01:20:36,000 YOUR LOW AND MEDIUM INCOME 2287 01:20:36,001 --> 01:20:38,000 WORKERS, BUT IT WILL ALLOW YOU 2288 01:20:38,001 --> 01:20:39,000 TO KEEP THAT DRY CLEANERS GOING 2289 01:20:39,001 --> 01:20:41,000 OVER THE LONG TERM. 2290 01:20:41,001 --> 01:20:42,000 IT WILL ALLOW YOU TO KEEP YOUR 2291 01:20:42,001 --> 01:20:44,000 SMALL BUSINESS MOVING, YOUR 2292 01:20:44,001 --> 01:20:46,000 STORE, WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU 2293 01:20:46,001 --> 01:20:48,000 MAY BE DOING, YOUR LAWN CARE BUSINESS. 2294 01:20:48,001 --> 01:20:49,000 YOU'LL BE ABLE TO STAY OUT THERE 2295 01:20:49,001 --> 01:20:52,000 BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU HAVE 2296 01:20:52,001 --> 01:20:53,000 WORKERS WHO CAN TAKE THE DAY OFF 2297 01:20:53,001 --> 01:20:55,000 AND GO GET THAT CHECKUP, WHO CAN 2298 01:20:55,001 --> 01:20:57,000 TAKE THE DAY OFF AND LOOK AFTER 2299 01:20:57,001 --> 01:20:58,000 THAT CHILD SO THAT YOU HAVE -- 2300 01:20:58,001 --> 01:21:00,000 WHEN THEY ARE AT WORK YOU HE 2301 01:21:00,001 --> 01:21:01,000 AN ALERT, HEALTHY WORK. 2302 01:21:01,001 --> 01:21:02,000 IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. 2303 01:21:02,001 --> 01:21:04,000 AS WE BEGIN THIS HEALTH CARE 2304 01:21:04,001 --> 01:21:06,000 DEBATE, I MEAN I NOTICED ONE OF 2305 01:21:06,001 --> 01:21:08,000 OUR COLLEAGUES WAS ON -- DOING A 2306 01:21:08,001 --> 01:21:09,000 FIVE MINUTE TALKING ABOUT HOW 2307 01:21:09,001 --> 01:21:11,000 HE'S AGAINST A PUBLIC PLAN. 2308 01:21:11,001 --> 01:21:12,000 YOU KNOW WHAT, I WANT TO TELL 2309 01:21:12,001 --> 01:21:14,000 EVERYBODY, I THINK IT'S 2310 01:21:14,001 --> 01:21:16,000 IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WHEN YOU 2311 01:21:16,001 --> 01:21:18,000 TALK ABOUT A COMPREHENSIVE 2312 01:21:18,001 --> 01:21:21,000 HEALTH CARE REFORM, PART OF IT 2313 01:21:21,001 --> 01:21:24,000 HAS GOT TO BE GIVING LOW-INCOME 2314 01:21:24,001 --> 01:21:25,000 AND MEDIUM AND MODERATE WORKERS 2315 01:21:25,001 --> 01:21:28,000 PAID SICK DAYS. LET'S FACE IT. 2316 01:21:28,001 --> 01:21:31,000 IF YOU'RE AN EXECUTIVE, IF YOU 2317 01:21:31,001 --> 01:21:32,000 ARE AT THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN 2318 01:21:32,001 --> 01:21:33,000 ECONOMICALLY, YOU'RE SICK, YOU 2319 01:21:33,001 --> 01:21:35,000 CAN TAKE A DAY OFF. 2320 01:21:35,001 --> 01:21:37,000 BUT WHAT IF YOU ARE A LINE WORKER? 2321 01:21:37,001 --> 01:21:39,000 WHAT IF YOU ARE AT THE FRONT DESK? 2322 01:21:39,001 --> 01:21:40,000 WHAT IF YOU ARE A LOW-WAGE 2323 01:21:40,001 --> 01:21:41,000 WORKER? 2324 01:21:41,001 --> 01:21:43,000 WHAT IF YOU ARE A MINIMUM WAGE WORKER? 2325 01:21:43,001 --> 01:21:45,000 THAT'S WHEN YOU DON'T SEE MANY 2326 01:21:45,001 --> 01:21:46,000 OF THE BENNYS GOING AROUND OR 2327 01:21:46,001 --> 01:21:48,000 YOU COULD TAKE A DAY OFF BUT 2328 01:21:48,001 --> 01:21:49,000 YOU'RE NOT GETTING PAID FOR IT. 2329 01:21:49,001 --> 01:21:51,000 IN THAT CASE YOU ARE FORCING THE 2330 01:21:51,001 --> 01:21:54,000 WORKER INTO A TERRIBLE CHOICE. 2331 01:21:54,001 --> 01:21:56,000 LACK OF INCOME OR HEALTH? 2332 01:21:56,001 --> 01:21:57,000 WHICH DO YOU WANT TO PICK TODAY? 2333 01:21:57,001 --> 01:21:59,000 THAT'S SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE ARE 2334 01:21:59,001 --> 01:22:00,000 TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGEO BE ABLE 2335 01:22:00,001 --> 01:22:03,000 TO MAKE A DECISION ON. 2336 01:22:03,001 --> 01:22:06,000 I YIELD BACK TO THE GENTLELADY. 2337 01:22:06,001 --> 01:22:09,000 MS. MOORE: THANK YOU FOR YIELDING. 2338 01:22:09,001 --> 01:22:10,000 SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY AND ROSA 2339 01:22:10,001 --> 01:22:12,000 DELAURO HAVE WORKED 2340 01:22:12,001 --> 01:22:14,000 COLLABORATIVELY ON THIS BILL, 2341 01:22:14,001 --> 01:22:16,000 AND THEY HAVE ACTUALLY 2342 01:22:16,001 --> 01:22:19,000 CALCULATED THROUGH THEIR STUDIES 2343 01:22:19,001 --> 01:22:20,000 THE COST OF WHAT THEY CALL, 2344 01:22:20,001 --> 01:22:23,000 PRESENTEISM. 2345 01:22:23,001 --> 01:22:24,000 I GUESS THAT'S THE BE OBJECT SIT 2346 01:22:24,001 --> 01:22:27,000 OF ABSENTEEISM. 2347 01:22:27,001 --> 01:22:28,000 MR. ELLISON: WHAT IS 2348 01:22:28,001 --> 01:22:29,000 PRESENTEISM? 2349 01:22:29,001 --> 01:22:31,000 IS IT ANYTHING LIKE ABSENTEEISM? 2350 01:22:31,001 --> 01:22:32,000 I YIELD BK. 2351 01:22:32,001 --> 01:22:34,000 MS. MOORE: PRESENTEISM IS THE 2352 01:22:34,001 --> 01:22:36,000 OPPOSITE OF ABSENTEEISM. 2353 01:22:36,001 --> 01:22:38,000 WHEN YOU SHOW UP TO WORK SICK, 2354 01:22:38,001 --> 01:22:40,000 KNOWING YOU'RE SICK BECAUSE OF 2355 01:22:40,001 --> 01:22:42,000 YOUR OWN SELF-INTEREST OF NOT 2356 01:22:42,001 --> 01:22:45,000 LOSING A DAY'S PAY, INFECTING 2357 01:22:45,001 --> 01:22:50,000 EVERYONE AT WORK, THIS COSTS OUR 2358 01:22:50,001 --> 01:22:51,000 NATIONAL ECONOMY $180 BILLION 2359 01:22:51,001 --> 01:22:54,000 ANNUALLY. 2360 01:22:54,001 --> 01:22:56,000 SHOWING UP SICK COSTS $180 2361 01:22:56,001 --> 01:22:59,000 BILLION ANNUALLY. 2362 01:22:59,001 --> 01:23:04,000 SO FOR EMPLOYERS THIS COST 2363 01:23:04,001 --> 01:23:07,000 AVERAGES $255 PER EMPLOYEE PER 2364 01:23:07,001 --> 01:23:09,000 YEAR AND EXCEEDS THE COST OF 2365 01:23:09,001 --> 01:23:10,000 ABSENTEEISM AND MEDICAL AND 2366 01:23:10,001 --> 01:23:12,000 DISABILITY BENEFITS. 2367 01:23:12,001 --> 01:23:14,000 I YIELD BACK. 2368 01:23:14,001 --> 01:23:15,000 MR. ELLISON: THANK YOU FOR THAT 2369 01:23:15,001 --> 01:23:17,000 IMPORTANT STATISTIC. 2370 01:23:17,001 --> 01:23:19,000 WE GOT TO COUNT UP THE BILL. 2371 01:23:19,001 --> 01:23:21,000 THE REAL DIFFICULTY IN A BILL 2372 01:23:21,001 --> 01:23:23,000 LIKE THE HEALTHY FAMILIES ACT IS 2373 01:23:23,001 --> 01:23:25,000 THAT WE KNOW THAT SOME PEOPLE 2374 01:23:25,001 --> 01:23:27,000 WHO ARE JUST LOOKING ON THE NEXT 2375 01:23:27,001 --> 01:23:28,000 QUARTER, THE NEXT MINUTE, THE 2376 01:23:28,001 --> 01:23:30,000 NEXT MOMENT AND IF THEY ARE 2377 01:23:30,001 --> 01:23:31,000 GOING TO HAVE TO SPEND A LITTLE 2378 01:23:31,001 --> 01:23:32,000 BIT OF MONEY IN THE SHORT-TERM, 2379 01:23:32,001 --> 01:23:33,000 THAT'S GOING TO COST MONEY. 2380 01:23:33,001 --> 01:23:36,000 YOU KNOW WHAT? 2381 01:23:36,001 --> 01:23:37,000 NOT DOING IT IS GOING TO COST 2382 01:23:37,001 --> 01:23:39,000 WAY, WAY, WAY MORE MONEY. 2383 01:23:39,001 --> 01:23:42,000 SO THE HEALTHY FAMILIES ACT IS A 2384 01:23:42,001 --> 01:23:43,000 PART OF A PROGRESSIVE VISION. 2385 01:23:43,001 --> 01:23:44,000 IT'S JUST LIKE THE -- 2386 01:23:44,001 --> 01:23:48,000 PROGRESSIVE VISION. 2387 01:23:48,001 --> 01:23:50,000 IT'S JUST LIKE THE WAGNER ACT. 2388 01:23:50,001 --> 01:23:51,000 JUST LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY, JUST 2389 01:23:51,001 --> 01:23:53,000 LIKE WORKERS' COMPENSATION, JUST 2390 01:23:53,001 --> 01:23:55,000 LIKE A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT 2391 01:23:55,001 --> 01:23:56,000 PROGRAMS AND PIECES OF 2392 01:23:56,001 --> 01:23:59,000 LEGISLATION PASSED IN AMERICA 2393 01:23:59,001 --> 01:24:01,000 THAT MAY HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED 2394 01:24:01,001 --> 01:24:03,000 LIBERAL OR EVEN RADICAL AT ONE 2395 01:24:03,001 --> 01:24:05,000 TIME, BUT AMERICANS HAVE COME TO 2396 01:24:05,001 --> 01:24:07,000 RELY ON. 2397 01:24:07,001 --> 01:24:08,000 AND EXPECT FROM OUR GOVERNMENT. 2398 01:24:08,001 --> 01:24:09,000 IT'S PART OF WHAT WE DO AS 2399 01:24:09,001 --> 01:24:11,000 AMERICANS TOGETHER. 2400 01:24:11,001 --> 01:24:13,000 WE SHARE, WE ALLOW IN THE 2401 01:24:13,001 --> 01:24:14,000 MARKETPLACE YOU CAN DO YOUR OWN 2402 01:24:14,001 --> 01:24:16,000 THING, YOU'RE FREE TO COME UP 2403 01:24:16,001 --> 01:24:17,000 WITH YOUR IDEA AND MAKE YOUR 2404 01:24:17,001 --> 01:24:18,000 MONEY. 2405 01:24:18,001 --> 01:24:20,000 CERTAIN THINGS WE DO TOGETHER. 2406 01:24:20,001 --> 01:24:22,000 WE DEFEND A NATION TOGETHER. 2407 01:24:22,001 --> 01:24:24,000 WE DEFEND OUR STREETS WITH THE POLICE TOGETHER. 2408 01:24:24,001 --> 01:24:25,000 WE PROVIDE JUSTICE TO OUR COURTS 2409 01:24:25,001 --> 01:24:28,000 TOGETHER. 2410 01:24:28,001 --> 01:24:29,000 WE MAKE SURE OUR ELDERLY ARE NOT 2411 01:24:29,001 --> 01:24:30,000 EATING DOG FOOD THROUGH SOCIAL SECURITY. 2412 01:24:30,001 --> 01:24:32,000 WE DO THIS TOGETHER. 2413 01:24:32,001 --> 01:24:34,000 WE MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WHOSE 2414 01:24:34,001 --> 01:24:35,000 PARENTS DIE HAVE SURVIVOR 2415 01:24:35,001 --> 01:24:37,000 BENEFITS THROUGH SOCIAL 2416 01:24:37,001 --> 01:24:38,000 SECURITY. 2417 01:24:38,001 --> 01:24:39,000 WE BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE 2418 01:24:39,001 --> 01:24:40,000 TOGETHER. 2419 01:24:40,001 --> 01:24:43,000 AND THIS IS ANOTHER THING WE SHOULD DO TOGETHER. 2420 01:24:43,001 --> 01:24:45,000 WE SHOULD COME TOGETHER AND SAY 2421 01:24:45,001 --> 01:24:48,000 THAT SEVEN DAYS OF PAID SICK 2422 01:24:48,001 --> 01:24:49,000 LEAVE A YEAR IS VERY MODEST 2423 01:24:49,001 --> 01:24:51,000 REQUEST, PARTICULARLY FOR LOW 2424 01:24:51,001 --> 01:24:53,000 AND MODERATE INCOME WORKERS, AND 2425 01:24:53,001 --> 01:24:54,000 IT PAYS TREMENDOUS DIVIDENDS 2426 01:24:54,001 --> 01:24:56,000 DOWN THE LINE. 2427 01:24:56,001 --> 01:24:57,000 IF THE GENTLELADY WOULD ALLOW 2428 01:24:57,001 --> 01:24:58,000 ME, I JUST WANT TO SHARE A 2429 01:24:58,001 --> 01:25:00,000 COUPLE OF STORIES FROM MY OWN 2430 01:25:00,001 --> 01:25:02,000 STATE OF MINNESOTA. 2431 01:25:02,001 --> 01:25:07,000 AND I'LL YIELD RIGHT BACK. 2432 01:25:07,001 --> 01:25:08,000 SHE SAYS I'M CURRENTLY A 2433 01:25:08,001 --> 01:25:09,000 STAY-AT-HOME MOM. 2434 01:25:09,001 --> 01:25:11,000 HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, CHRISTY. 2435 01:25:11,001 --> 01:25:14,000 HOWEVER, PRIOR TO THAT I WORKED 2436 01:25:14,001 --> 01:25:16,000 AS A NATURAL FOODS MANAGER IN A 2437 01:25:16,001 --> 01:25:18,000 CONVENTIONAL GROCERY STORE FOR SIX YEARS. 2438 01:25:18,001 --> 01:25:21,000 THIS COMPANY OFFERED NO SICK 2439 01:25:21,001 --> 01:25:23,000 LEAVE AT ALL TO ANY OF ITS 2440 01:25:23,001 --> 01:25:25,000 EMPLOYEES. 2441 01:25:25,001 --> 01:25:27,000 MANY PEOPLE OEN WORK SICK OUT 2442 01:25:27,001 --> 01:25:28,000 OF NECESSITY. 2443 01:25:28,001 --> 01:25:30,000 CHRISTY, WE'LL TRY TO DO 2444 01:25:30,001 --> 01:25:32,000 SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 2445 01:25:32,001 --> 01:25:33,000 AMANDA FROM MINNESOTA. 2446 01:25:33,001 --> 01:25:35,000 I'M FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE 2447 01:25:35,001 --> 01:25:36,000 SICK TIME AT MY JOB AT THE 2448 01:25:36,001 --> 01:25:38,000 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. 2449 01:25:38,001 --> 01:25:42,000 WHEN I WAS IN MY EARLY 30'S, I 2450 01:25:42,001 --> 01:25:43,000 WAS TOTALLY HEALTHY. 2451 01:25:43,001 --> 01:25:45,000 EXERCISED REGULARLY, AT A 2452 01:25:45,001 --> 01:25:47,000 HEALTHY WEIGHT, AND SUDDENLY 2453 01:25:47,001 --> 01:25:48,000 DEVELOPED A RARE KIDNEY DISEASE 2454 01:25:48,001 --> 01:25:52,000 REQUIRING MULTIPLE TRIPS TO 2455 01:25:52,001 --> 01:25:54,000 MULTIPLE CLINICS TO GET MULTIPLE DIAGNOSTICS. 2456 01:25:54,001 --> 01:25:56,000 THIS TOOK A LOT OF TIME AWAY FROM WORK. 2457 01:25:56,001 --> 01:25:57,000 THANKFULLY I WAS ABLE TO GET 2458 01:25:57,001 --> 01:26:00,000 PAID FOR THIS TIME. 2459 01:26:00,001 --> 01:26:01,000 IF I DIDN'T HAVE ANY INCOME IN 2460 01:26:01,001 --> 01:26:04,000 ADDITION TO THE STRESS OF THE 2461 01:26:04,001 --> 01:26:06,000 CONDITION, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN UNBEARABLE. 2462 01:26:06,001 --> 01:26:10,000 I'M NOT SO NAIVE TO BELIEVE 2463 01:26:10,001 --> 01:26:11,000 THIS IS A REALITY OF EVERY WORKPLACE. 2464 01:26:11,001 --> 01:26:13,000 I'M VERY MUCH AWARE OF THE FACT 2465 01:26:13,001 --> 01:26:15,000 THAT MANY PEOPLE FACE STRUGGLES 2466 01:26:15,001 --> 01:26:16,000 SIMILAR TO MINE ON A DAILY 2467 01:26:16,001 --> 01:26:18,000 BASI 2468 01:26:18,001 --> 01:26:20,000 IT'S TIME TO GUARANTEE WORKERS 2469 01:26:20,001 --> 01:26:21,000 PAID TIME TO CARE FOR THEMSELVES 2470 01:26:21,001 --> 01:26:23,000 SO THEY ARE ABLE TO GET THEIR 2471 01:26:23,001 --> 01:26:26,000 WORK DONE EFFICIENTLY AT NO RISK 2472 01:26:26,001 --> 01:26:28,000 TO THEMSELVES OR THEIR CO-WORKERS. 2473 01:26:28,001 --> 01:26:30,000 OR WHAT ABOUT THE SITUATION THAT 2474 01:26:30,001 --> 01:26:32,000 CINDY IS IN? 2475 01:26:32,001 --> 01:26:34,000 CINDY FROM MINNESOTA, I WORK -- 2476 01:26:34,001 --> 01:26:36,000 I WORK A PART-TIME JOB FOR A 2477 01:26:36,001 --> 01:26:38,000 UNIVERSITY AS A RESEARCHER. 2478 01:26:38,001 --> 01:26:41,000 IN MY CATEGORY, SICK LEAVE IS 2479 01:26:41,001 --> 01:26:43,000 ALL DISCRETIONARY AND FLEXIBLE. 2480 01:26:43,001 --> 01:26:46,000 HOWEVER NO PAID VACATION DAYS 2481 01:26:46,001 --> 01:26:49,000 ACCRUE EVER FOR ME. 2482 01:26:49,001 --> 01:26:52,000 THE ONLY WAY I FEEL LEGIT IN 2483 01:26:52,001 --> 01:26:54,000 SCHEDULING A WEEK'S VACATION IS 2484 01:26:54,001 --> 01:26:56,000 IF I AM NEVER SICK AND MAKE UP 2485 01:26:56,001 --> 01:26:57,000 THOSE HOURS PREAND POST. 2486 01:26:57,001 --> 01:26:59,000 THAT'S FROM CINDY. 2487 01:26:59,001 --> 01:27:00,000 I OFFER THESE STORIES BECAUSE I 2488 01:27:00,001 --> 01:27:02,000 THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO POINT 2489 01:27:02,001 --> 01:27:03,000 OUT THAT THIS -- THE HEALTHY 2490 01:27:03,001 --> 01:27:05,000 FAMILIES ACT IS GOING TO HELP 2491 01:27:05,001 --> 01:27:06,000 AMERICANS ALL OVER THE UNITED 2492 01:27:06,001 --> 01:27:10,000 STATES. 2493 01:27:10,001 --> 01:27:13,000 REAL PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING DAY. 2494 01:27:13,001 --> 01:27:15,000 THIS IS IN KEEPING WITH WORKERS, 2495 01:27:15,001 --> 01:27:18,000 THE PROTECTION FOR WORKERS RIGHT 2496 01:27:18,001 --> 01:27:19,000 TO ORGANIZE, SOCIAL SECURITY, 2497 01:27:19,001 --> 01:27:20,000 WORKERS' COMPENSATION, THIS IS 2498 01:27:20,001 --> 01:27:23,000 RIGHT IN LINE WITH 2499 01:27:23,001 --> 01:27:24,000 IMPORTANT AND PROGRESSIVE STEP 2500 01:27:24,001 --> 01:27:25,000 AMERICANS HAVE MADE IN ORDER TO 2501 01:27:25,001 --> 01:27:27,000 IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR 2502 01:27:27,001 --> 01:27:28,000 YOUR AVERAGE AMERICAN. 2503 01:27:28,001 --> 01:27:29,000 THIS IS LIKE THE MINIMUM WAGE. 2504 01:27:29,001 --> 01:27:31,000 THIS IS LIKE WORKERS RIGHTS. 2505 01:27:31,001 --> 01:27:32,000 THIS IS LIKE CIVIL RIGHTS. 2506 01:27:32,001 --> 01:27:33,000 THIS IS LIKE WOMEN'S RIGHTS. 2507 01:27:33,001 --> 01:27:35,000 THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD DO AT THIS TIME. 2508 01:27:35,001 --> 01:27:36,000 IT'S A PART OF A PROGRESSIVE 2509 01:27:36,001 --> 01:27:39,000 VISION THAT WE ARE GOING TO WORK 2510 01:27:39,001 --> 01:27:40,000 I YIELD BACK TO THE GENTLELADY. 2511 01:27:40,001 --> 01:27:42,000 MS. MOORE: THANK YOU FOR YIELDING. 2512 01:27:42,001 --> 01:27:44,000 THOSE ARE VERY COMPELLING STORIES. 2513 01:27:44,001 --> 01:27:48,000 AND I HAVE SOME HERE, TOO. 2514 01:27:48,001 --> 01:27:50,000 BEFORE I TALK ABOUT INDIVIDUALS 2515 01:27:50,001 --> 01:27:51,000 SORT OF TESTIMONIES FROM 2516 01:27:51,001 --> 01:27:54,000 WISCONSIN, I JUST WANT TO MAKE A 2517 01:27:54,001 --> 01:27:57,000 POINT THAT THIS LEGISLATION 2518 01:27:57,001 --> 01:28:00,000 RECOGNIZES THE IORTANCE OF NOT 2519 01:28:00,001 --> 01:28:02,000 HAMSTRINGING SMALL BUSINESSES. 2520 01:28:02,001 --> 01:28:03,000 ALL BUSINESSES WITH UNDER 15 2521 01:28:03,001 --> 01:28:05,000 EMPLOYEES WOULD BE EXEMPT. 2522 01:28:05,001 --> 01:28:08,000 SO PERHAPS MY EXAMPLE OF THE DRY 2523 01:28:08,001 --> 01:28:13,000 CLEANERS WASN'T APPROPRIATE, BUT 2524 01:28:13,001 --> 01:28:15,000 CERTAINLY WHEN YOU HAVE UNDER 15 2525 01:28:15,001 --> 01:28:18,000 EMPLOYEES, THOSE EMPLOYERS ARE 2526 01:28:18,001 --> 01:28:20,000 EXEMPT FROM PROVIDING THE SEVEN 2527 01:28:20,001 --> 01:28:23,000 DAYS OF SICK LEAVE. 2528 01:28:23,001 --> 01:28:24,000 MR. ELLISON: WOULD THE 2529 01:28:24,001 --> 01:28:25,000 GENTLELADY YIELD? 2530 01:28:25,001 --> 01:28:27,000 IF WE WERE TO PASS THE HLTHY 2531 01:28:27,001 --> 01:28:28,000 FAMILIES ACT, THEN THE LARGER 2532 01:28:28,001 --> 01:28:30,000 BUSINESS, MEDIUM TO LARGER 2533 01:28:30,001 --> 01:28:31,000 BUSINESSES WOULD PROVIDE THESE 2534 01:28:31,001 --> 01:28:34,000 SEVEN DAYS. 2535 01:28:34,001 --> 01:28:36,000 NOW, BIG BUSINESS HAS A WAY OF 2536 01:28:36,001 --> 01:28:38,000 SETTING A TREND FOR SMALL BUSINESS. 2537 01:28:38,001 --> 01:28:40,000 SO IF BIG BUSINESSES DID THIS, 2538 01:28:40,001 --> 01:28:41,000 PERHAPS SMALL BUSINESSES WOULD 2539 01:28:41,001 --> 01:28:43,000 FEWER THAN 15 EMPLOYEES WOULD 2540 01:28:43,001 --> 01:28:44,000 SAY, HEY, IT'S WORKING FOR THEM. 2541 01:28:44,001 --> 01:28:45,000 IT'S THE INDUSTRY STANDARD. 2542 01:28:45,001 --> 01:28:47,000 IT MAKES SENSE. 2543 01:28:47,001 --> 01:28:48,000 WE MIGHT JUST DO IT VOLUNTARILY. 2544 01:28:48,001 --> 01:28:51,000 I YIELD BACK. 2545 01:28:51,001 --> 01:28:52,000 MS. MOORE: ACTUALLY DATA ARE 2546 01:28:52,001 --> 01:28:54,000 CONCLUSIVE THAT OUR NATIONAL 2547 01:28:54,001 --> 01:28:57,000 ECONOMY WOULD EXPERIENCE A NET 2548 01:28:57,001 --> 01:28:59,000 SAVINGS OF $8.1 BILLION A YEAR 2549 01:28:59,001 --> 01:29:03,000 WITH JUST PROVIDING EMPLOYEES 2550 01:29:03,001 --> 01:29:04,000 WITH THESE SEVEN DAYS OF SICK 2551 01:29:04,001 --> 01:29:06,000 TIME. 2552 01:29:06,001 --> 01:29:08,000 AS YOU HAVE POINTED OUT, 2553 01:29:08,001 --> 01:29:09,000 PRODUCTIVITY IS EXTREMELY 2554 01:29:09,001 --> 01:29:12,000 IMPORTANT. 2555 01:29:12,001 --> 01:29:14,000 I CAN REMEMBER AT THE TIME WHEN 2556 01:29:14,001 --> 01:29:16,000 MY MOTHER DIED I WAS SHOWING UP 2557 01:29:16,001 --> 01:29:17,000 AT WORK AND JUST STARING AT THE 2558 01:29:17,001 --> 01:29:21,000 WALL. 2559 01:29:21,001 --> 01:29:22,000 I WAS NOT WELL. 2560 01:29:22,001 --> 01:29:23,000 BECAUSE OF THE EXTREME GRIEF I 2561 01:29:23,001 --> 01:29:25,000 WAS EXPERIENCING. 2562 01:29:25,001 --> 01:29:27,000 AND I WAS AT WORK. 2563 01:29:27,001 --> 01:29:29,000 AND MY BOSSES TOLD ME TO GET UP 2564 01:29:29,001 --> 01:29:31,000 AND GO HOME, PLEASE. 2565 01:29:31,001 --> 01:29:34,000 AND SO WHEN I CAME BACK I WAS 2566 01:29:34,001 --> 01:29:37,000 MUCH MORE FOCUSED ON MY JOB. 2567 01:29:37,001 --> 01:29:38,000 THAT PRODUCTIVITY IS NOT GOOD. 2568 01:29:38,001 --> 01:29:40,000 THOTHER THING IS THAT WE ARE 2569 01:29:40,001 --> 01:29:42,000 HUMAN BEINGS. 2570 01:29:42,001 --> 01:29:45,000 EMPLOYERS EXPERIENCE A LOT OF 2571 01:29:45,001 --> 01:29:47,000 TURNOVER BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE 2572 01:29:47,001 --> 01:29:50,000 EMPLOYEE LOYALTY BECAUSE THEY 2573 01:29:50,001 --> 01:29:52,000 DON'T HAVE A BASIC SENSE OF 2574 01:29:52,001 --> 01:29:53,000 EMPATHY AND HUMANITY. 2575 01:29:53,001 --> 01:29:56,000 THERE'S NO WAY ITHE WORLD THAT 2576 01:29:56,001 --> 01:29:58,000 I WOULD WANT TO WORK FOR AN 2577 01:29:58,001 --> 01:30:02,000 EMPLOYER WHO COULDN'T EMPATHIZE 2578 01:30:02,001 --> 01:30:05,000 WITH MY GRIEF OVER HAVING LOST 2579 01:30:05,001 --> 01:30:08,000 MY MOTHER AND WOULDN'T GIVE ME A 2580 01:30:08,001 --> 01:30:09,000 DAY OR TWO TO PULL MYSELF 2581 01:30:09,001 --> 01:30:11,000 TOGETHER. 2582 01:30:11,001 --> 01:30:13,000 SO PRODUCTIVITY IS WHAT IS LOST 2583 01:30:13,001 --> 01:30:15,000 WHEN WE DON'T PROVIDE SICK DAYS. 2584 01:30:15,001 --> 01:30:16,000 I YIELD BACK TO THE GENTLEMAN 2585 01:30:16,001 --> 01:30:17,000 OM MINNESOTA. 2586 01:30:17,001 --> 01:30:18,000 MR. ELLISON: I THANK THE 2587 01:30:18,001 --> 01:30:19,000 GENTLELADY FOR YIELDING. 2588 01:30:19,001 --> 01:30:20,000 LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT LESLEY 2589 01:30:20,001 --> 01:30:22,000 FROM MINNESOTA. 2590 01:30:22,001 --> 01:30:23,000 LESLEY SAYS, I USED TO WAIT 2591 01:30:23,001 --> 01:30:26,000 TABLES FULL-TIME AND THERE ARE 2592 01:30:26,001 --> 01:30:27,000 RARE OCCASIONS WHERE YOU CAN GET 2593 01:30:27,001 --> 01:30:29,000 SICK -- GET PAID SICK DAYS LIKE 2594 01:30:29,001 --> 01:30:30,000 WHEN I WORKED FOR LARGE CHAIN 2595 01:30:30,001 --> 01:30:32,000 HOTEL. 2596 01:30:32,001 --> 01:30:34,000 HOWEVER, MOST PEOPLE DON'T 2597 01:30:34,001 --> 01:30:36,000 REALIZE THAT WHEN -- THAT YOU 2598 01:30:36,001 --> 01:30:38,000 WILL BE ABLE YOUR HOURLY MINIMUM 2599 01:30:38,001 --> 01:30:40,000 WAGE NOT ANY COMPENSATION FOR 2600 01:30:40,001 --> 01:30:44,000 LOST TIPS, WHICH IS THE VAST 2601 01:30:44,001 --> 01:30:45,000 MAJORITY OF YOUR MONEY AS A WAIT 2602 01:30:45,001 --> 01:30:48,000 PERSON. 2603 01:30:48,001 --> 01:30:49,000 IN FACT, MOST SERVERS BARELY 2604 01:30:49,001 --> 01:30:51,000 SEEK A PAYCHECK. 2605 01:30:51,001 --> 01:30:53,000 IT IS EATEN UP WITH TAXES TAKEN 2606 01:30:53,001 --> 01:30:55,000 FOR DECLARED TIPS. 2607 01:30:55,001 --> 01:30:57,000 YES, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DECLE 2608 01:30:57,001 --> 01:30:58,000 TIPS, IT'S A MYTH YOU CAN 2609 01:30:58,001 --> 01:31:01,000 CONCEAL THIS INFORMATION. 2610 01:31:01,001 --> 01:31:03,000 SO EVEN IF YOU DO GET PAID SICK 2611 01:31:03,001 --> 01:31:05,000 LEAVE OR PAID VACATION, WHICH IS 2612 01:31:05,001 --> 01:31:07,000 UNLIKELY, IT IS NOT YOUR -- IN 2613 01:31:07,001 --> 01:31:09,000 YOUR INTEREST TO USE IT. 2614 01:31:09,001 --> 01:31:10,000 SERVERS BASICALLY CANNOT GET 2615 01:31:10,001 --> 01:31:12,000 PAID UNLESS THEY ARE PHYSICALLY 2616 01:31:12,001 --> 01:31:14,000 AT WORK AND RESTAURANTS ARE MUCH 2617 01:31:14,001 --> 01:31:16,000 -- ARE SUCH HECTIC PLACES THAT 2618 01:31:16,001 --> 01:31:19,000 IF YOU ARE SHORT STAFFED THE 2619 01:31:19,001 --> 01:31:22,000 QUALITY OF SERVICE SUFFERS EVERYWHERE. 2620 01:31:22,001 --> 01:31:23,000 CUSTOMERS IN RESTAURANTS ARE 2621 01:31:23,001 --> 01:31:24,000 NOTORIOUSLY UNSYMPATHETIC TO 2622 01:31:24,001 --> 01:31:26,000 DETAILS LIKE THIS. 2623 01:31:26,001 --> 01:31:27,000 ANOTHER QUICK ONE, CARRIE FROM 2624 01:31:27,001 --> 01:31:29,000 MINNESOTA, MY KIDS ARE AGES 2 2625 01:31:29,001 --> 01:31:31,000 AND 3 AND THE CHILDCARE CENTER 2626 01:31:31,001 --> 01:31:33,000 DOESN'T TAKE THEM WHEN THEY ARE SICK. 2627 01:31:33,001 --> 01:31:34,000 NEITHER MY HUSBAND NOR I HAVE 2628 01:31:34,001 --> 01:31:37,000 PAID SICK DAYS. 2629 01:31:37,001 --> 01:31:38,000 PLEASE PASS THE HEALTHY FAMILY ACT. 2630 01:31:38,001 --> 01:31:44,000 I YIEL 2631 01:31:44,001 --> 01:31:46,000 . 2632 01:31:46,001 --> 01:31:48,000 MS. MOORE: I CAN TELL YOU THE 2633 01:31:48,001 --> 01:31:52,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MINNESOTA, I FEEL 2634 01:31:52,001 --> 01:31:55,000 REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THE 2635 01:31:55,001 --> 01:32:03,000 LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS WILL BE WHEN 2636 01:32:03,001 --> 01:32:07,000 PEOPLE SHOW UP KNOWINGLY ILL -- 2637 01:32:07,001 --> 01:32:10,000 MR. ELLISON: I HAVE TO ANSWER 2638 01:32:10,001 --> 01:32:12,000 THIS CALL BECAUSE IT SAYS IT'S 2639 01:32:12,001 --> 01:32:13,000 IMMEDIATE. 2640 01:32:13,001 --> 01:32:15,000 MS. MOORE: I HAVE TO WONDER WHAT 2641 01:32:15,001 --> 01:32:19,000 THE LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS ARE OF 2642 01:32:19,001 --> 01:32:20,000 FOLK COMING TO WORK KNOWINGLY, 2643 01:32:20,001 --> 01:32:24,000 KNOWING THAT THEY ARE SICK. 2644 01:32:24,001 --> 01:32:27,000 THERE IS A CHORUS OF PUBLIC 2645 01:32:27,001 --> 01:32:29,000 OFFICIALS WHO GIVE DIRECTIVES TO 2646 01:32:29,001 --> 01:32:34,000 PEOPLE SAYING THAT IF YOU HAVE 2647 01:32:34,001 --> 01:32:35,000 SYMPTOMS OF A PANDEMIC, THEN YOU 2648 01:32:35,001 --> 01:32:38,000 SHOULD STAY AT HOME. 2649 01:32:38,001 --> 01:32:41,000 WE HEAR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE 2650 01:32:41,001 --> 01:32:44,000 CONTROL SAY IF YOU'RE SICK AND 2651 01:32:44,001 --> 01:32:50,000 IF YOU HAVE SYMPTOMS, STAY HOME. 2652 01:32:50,001 --> 01:32:53,000 WE HEAR DR. RICHARD BESSER THE 2653 01:32:53,001 --> 01:32:56,000 ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE CENTERS 2654 01:32:56,001 --> 01:32:58,000 FOR DISEASE CONTROL, SAY, YOU 2655 01:32:58,001 --> 01:33:01,000 SHOULDN'T GO TO SCHOOL OR GET ON 2656 01:33:01,001 --> 01:33:02,000 AIRPLANES OR OTHER LARGE PUBLIC 2657 01:33:02,001 --> 01:33:04,000 TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS IF YOU'RE 2658 01:33:04,001 --> 01:33:05,000 ILL. 2659 01:33:05,001 --> 01:33:09,000 WE HEAR FROM THE WHITE HOUSE 2660 01:33:09,001 --> 01:33:12,000 THAT THE PRESS SECRETARY SAYING, 2661 01:33:12,001 --> 01:33:13,000 CLEARLY, WE ALL HAVE INDIVIDUAL 2662 01:33:13,001 --> 01:33:15,000 RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEALING WITH 2663 01:33:15,001 --> 01:33:17,000 THIS SITUATION. 2664 01:33:17,001 --> 01:33:22,000 AND WE SHOULD ALL BE PRACTICING 2665 01:33:22,001 --> 01:33:26,000 GOOD PRACTICES AND STAY AT HOME. 2666 01:33:26,001 --> 01:33:28,000 WE HEAR SECRETARY OF THE 2667 01:33:28,001 --> 01:33:32,000 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, 2668 01:33:32,001 --> 01:33:34,000 JANET NAPOLITANO, TELLING US AGAIN, THE GOVERNMENT CAN'T 2669 01:33:34,001 --> 01:33:35,000 SOLVE THIS ALONE. 2670 01:33:35,001 --> 01:33:37,000 WE NEED EVERYBODY IN THE UNITED 2671 01:33:37,001 --> 01:33:38,000 STATES TO TAKE SOME 2672 01:33:38,001 --> 01:33:40,000 RESPONSIBILITY. 2673 01:33:40,001 --> 01:33:46,000 IF YOU ARE SICK, STAY AT HOME. 2674 01:33:46,001 --> 01:33:47,000 WE HEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA, HIS 100 2675 01:33:47,001 --> 01:33:52,000 DAYS' PRESS CONFERENCE SAYING, 2676 01:33:52,001 --> 01:33:55,000 THE KEY NOW IS TO MAKE SURE THAT 2677 01:33:55,001 --> 01:33:57,000 WE MAINTAIN GOOD VIGILANCE AND 2678 01:33:57,001 --> 01:34:00,000 THAT EVERYBODY RESPONDS 2679 01:34:00,001 --> 01:34:01,000 APPROPRIATELY AND STAY AT HOME. 2680 01:34:01,001 --> 01:34:05,000 IF YOUR CHILD IS SICK, KEEP THEM 2681 01:34:05,001 --> 01:34:07,000 OUT OF SCHOOL. 2682 01:34:07,001 --> 01:34:09,000 AND WE HEAR OF THIS OVER AND 2683 01:34:09,001 --> 01:34:12,000 OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 2684 01:34:12,001 --> 01:34:15,000 AND SO, I WOULD -- I WOULD 2685 01:34:15,001 --> 01:34:16,000 FINALLY YIELD TO THE GENTLEMAN 2686 01:34:16,001 --> 01:34:19,000 IN MY FINAL WORDS HERE AND JUST 2687 01:34:19,001 --> 01:34:21,000 ASK YOU AS AN ATTORNEY, AS A 2688 01:34:21,001 --> 01:34:22,000 MEMBER OF THE JUDICIARY 2689 01:34:22,001 --> 01:34:28,000 COMMITTEE, WHAT ARE THE 2690 01:34:28,001 --> 01:34:29,000 IMPLICATIONS OF KNOWING THAT 2691 01:34:29,001 --> 01:34:32,000 YOU'RE ILL AND SHOWING UP AT 2692 01:34:32,001 --> 01:34:33,000 WORK BECAU YOU DON'T HAVE A 2693 01:34:33,001 --> 01:34:35,000 PAID SICK DAY? 2694 01:34:35,001 --> 01:34:36,000 MR. ELLISON: THANK YOU 2695 01:34:36,001 --> 01:34:38,000 GENTLELADY FOR YIELDING. 2696 01:34:38,001 --> 01:34:41,000 YOU MIGHT END UP BEING CHARGED 2697 01:34:41,001 --> 01:34:43,000 WITH NEGLIGENCE, KNOWING THAT 2698 01:34:43,001 --> 01:34:45,000 YOU'RE SICK, KNOWING THAT YOU'RE 2699 01:34:45,001 --> 01:34:48,000 CONTAGIOUS AND STILL GOING TO 2700 01:34:48,001 --> 01:34:51,000 WORK MIGHT POTENTIALLY -- SOME 2701 01:34:51,001 --> 01:34:52,000 SMART LAWYER MIGHT FIGURE OUT A 2702 01:34:52,001 --> 01:34:55,000 WAY TO SUE YOU FOR NEGLIGENCE 2703 01:34:55,001 --> 01:34:56,000 BECAUSE YOU EXPOSED THEM TO AN 2704 01:34:56,001 --> 01:34:59,000 ILLNESS. 2705 01:34:59,001 --> 01:35:00,000 IT COULD BE TAKEN UP BY WORKERS' 2706 01:35:00,001 --> 01:35:02,000 COMPENSATION BUT SOMEONE HAS TO 2707 01:35:02,001 --> 01:35:07,000 PAY SOMETHING SOMEWHERE AND 2708 01:35:07,001 --> 01:35:11,000 CLEARLY IF YOU GOT AN ON-THJOB 2709 01:35:11,001 --> 01:35:12,000 ILLNESS OR INJURY, IT WOULD BE A 2710 01:35:12,001 --> 01:35:14,000 WORKERS' COMP. CLAIM. 2711 01:35:14,001 --> 01:35:15,000 I WANT TO THANK THEENTLELADY 2712 01:35:15,001 --> 01:35:17,000 FROM WISCONSIN. 2713 01:35:17,001 --> 01:35:19,000 AS SHE KNOWS, SHE IS ONE OF MY 2714 01:35:19,001 --> 01:35:21,000 FAVORITE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND A WONDERFUL 2715 01:35:21,001 --> 01:35:24,000 HUMAN BEING ALL THE WAY AROUND. 2716 01:35:24,001 --> 01:35:28,000 I WANT TO WISH THE GENTLELADY 2717 01:35:28,001 --> 01:35:33,000 HAPPY NOT THERS' DAY AND THANK 2718 01:35:33,001 --> 01:35:36,000 HER FOR HER -- MOTHER'S DAY AND 2719 01:35:36,001 --> 01:35:37,000 WE HAVE A DUTY AND OBLIGATION TO 2720 01:35:37,001 --> 01:35:39,000 PRESENT A PROGRESSIVE VISION FOR 2721 01:35:39,001 --> 01:35:41,000 AMERICA, WHICH WAY FORWARD. 2722 01:35:41,001 --> 01:35:42,000 WELL, THE WAY FORWARD IS TO BE 2723 01:35:42,001 --> 01:35:45,000 MORE INCLUSIVE, TO BRING MORE 2724 01:35:45,001 --> 01:35:47,000 PEOPLE INTO THE WARM EMBRACE OF 2725 01:35:47,001 --> 01:35:48,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'S 2726 01:35:48,001 --> 01:35:50,000 GENEROSITY. 2727 01:35:50,001 --> 01:35:52,000 THE WAY FORWARD IS PEACE AND 2728 01:35:52,001 --> 01:35:54,000 DIALOGUE AND TO HAVE A BETTER 2729 01:35:54,001 --> 01:35:57,000 AMERICA, HIGHER QUALITY OF LIFE 2730 01:35:57,001 --> 01:36:00,000 FOR EVERYBODY AND AS EVERYBODY 2731 01:36:00,001 --> 01:36:03,000 DOES BETTER, WITH THAT. 2732 01:36:03,001 --> 01:36:04,000 IT HAS BEEN ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE 2733 01:36:04,001 --> 01:36:05,000 MESSAGE AND I WANT TO THANK THE 2734 01:36:05,001 --> 01:36:07,000 GENTLELADY. 2735 01:36:07,001 --> 01:36:37,000 AND I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF 2736 01:36:37,001 --> 01:36:39,000 OUR TIME. 2737 01:36:39,001 --> 01:36:40,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: UNDER 2738 01:36:40,001 --> 01:36:42,000 THE SPEAKER'S ANNOUNCED POLICY 2739 01:36:42,001 --> 01:36:44,000 OF JANUARY 6, 2009, THE 2740 01:36:44,001 --> 01:36:46,000 GENTLEMAN FROM GEORGIA, MR. 2741 01:36:46,001 --> 01:36:49,000 GINGREY, IS RECOGNIZED FOR 60 2742 01:36:49,001 --> 01:36:51,000 MINUTES AS THE DESIGNEE OF THE 2743 01:36:51,001 --> 01:36:53,000 MINORITY LEADER. 2744 01:36:53,001 --> 01:36:54,000 MR. GINGREY: MR. SPEAKER, THANK 2745 01:36:54,001 --> 01:36:56,000 YOU SO MUCH FOR GIVING ME THE 2746 01:36:56,001 --> 01:36:58,000 OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND SOME TIME 2747 01:36:58,001 --> 01:36:59,000 ON THE FLOOR THIS EVENING WITH 2748 01:36:59,001 --> 01:37:01,000 OUR COLLEAGUES. 2749 01:37:01,001 --> 01:37:02,000 AND I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT TWO 2750 01:37:02,001 --> 01:37:04,000 DIFFERENT ISSUES. 2751 01:37:04,001 --> 01:37:09,000 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT ENERGY 2752 01:37:09,001 --> 01:37:13,000 AND PARTICULARLY THE SCHEME OF 2753 01:37:13,001 --> 01:37:18,000 CARBON TAX OR CAP AND TRADE AND 2754 01:37:18,001 --> 01:37:20,000 RENEWABLE ENERGY, RENEWABLE 2755 01:37:20,001 --> 01:37:22,000 QUOTAS, IF YOU WILL, BECAUSE 2756 01:37:22,001 --> 01:37:26,000 THAT'S A HUGELY IMPORTANT ISSUE 2757 01:37:26,001 --> 01:37:28,000 THAT'S FACING THE NATION AND THE 2758 01:37:28,001 --> 01:37:29,000 CONGRESS IS DEALING WITH AT THE 2759 01:37:29,001 --> 01:37:30,000 PRESENT TIME. 2760 01:37:30,001 --> 01:37:32,000 AND PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE 2761 01:37:32,001 --> 01:37:34,000 COMMITTEE ON WHICH I SERVE, 2762 01:37:34,001 --> 01:37:35,000 ENERGY A COMMERCE. 2763 01:37:35,001 --> 01:37:36,000 AND THE OTHER BIG ISSUE ALSO 2764 01:37:36,001 --> 01:37:38,000 COMING THROUGH THE ENERGY AND 2765 01:37:38,001 --> 01:37:39,000 COMMERCE AND A COUPLE OF OTHER 2766 01:37:39,001 --> 01:37:42,000 COMMITTEES IS THE ISSUE OF 2767 01:37:42,001 --> 01:37:43,000 HEALTH CARE REFORM. 2768 01:37:43,001 --> 01:37:46,000 NOW, PRESIDENT OBAMA, WHEN HE 2769 01:37:46,001 --> 01:37:48,000 WAS SWORN IN AND SHORTLY AFTER 2770 01:37:48,001 --> 01:37:49,000 THAT, SPOKE TO A JOINT SESSION 2771 01:37:49,001 --> 01:37:52,000 OF CONGRESS HERE IN THIS HOUSE 2772 01:37:52,001 --> 01:37:53,000 CHAMBER AND TALKED ABOUT THE 2773 01:37:53,001 --> 01:37:56,000 IMPORTANCE IN HIS OPINION, 2774 01:37:56,001 --> 01:37:57,000 DESPITE THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN 2775 01:37:57,001 --> 01:38:00,000 AND THE NEED FOR STIMULUS BILLS, 2776 01:38:00,001 --> 01:38:02,000 HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, 2777 01:38:02,001 --> 01:38:05,000 IN FACT, WORTH OF STIMULUS 2778 01:38:05,001 --> 01:38:06,000 BILLS, SPENDING ON PROJECTS, 2779 01:38:06,001 --> 01:38:08,000 HOPEFULLY GETTING THE ECONOMY 2780 01:38:08,001 --> 01:38:09,000 GOING AGAIN. 2781 01:38:09,001 --> 01:38:12,000 THE TARP MONEY THAT WENT TO 2782 01:38:12,001 --> 01:38:14,000 BANKS, CONTINUING TO GO TO 2783 01:38:14,001 --> 01:38:17,000 BANKS, THAT'S EXPANDED TO 2784 01:38:17,001 --> 01:38:18,000 INCLUDE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND 2785 01:38:18,001 --> 01:38:21,000 DOMESTIC AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY. 2786 01:38:21,001 --> 01:38:22,000 WE HAVE SPENT LITERALLY HUNDREDS 2787 01:38:22,001 --> 01:38:24,000 OF BILLIONS, IF NOT TRILLIONS OF 2788 01:38:24,001 --> 01:38:25,000 DOLLARS TRYING TO STIMULATE THE 2789 01:38:25,001 --> 01:38:27,000 ECONOMY. 2790 01:38:27,001 --> 01:38:28,000 BUT THE PRESIDENT STILL FEELS 2791 01:38:28,001 --> 01:38:31,000 VERY STRONGLY AS DOES THIS 2792 01:38:31,001 --> 01:38:32,000 MAJORITY PARTY, DEMOCRATIC 2793 01:38:32,001 --> 01:38:34,000 PARTY, MR. SPEAKER, OF PUSHING 2794 01:38:34,001 --> 01:38:38,000 AHEAD, PUSHING AHEAD WITH THIS 2795 01:38:38,001 --> 01:38:41,000 IDEA OF SOLVING THE GLOBAL 2796 01:38:41,001 --> 01:38:43,000 WARMING ISSUE BY LIMITING THE 2797 01:38:43,001 --> 01:38:46,000 AMOUNT OF CARBON THAT CAN BE 2798 01:38:46,001 --> 01:38:47,000 PRODUCED AND RELEASED INTO THE 2799 01:38:47,001 --> 01:38:49,000 ATMOSPHERE AS WE GO THROUGH THE 2800 01:38:49,001 --> 01:38:51,000 PROCESS AND ALWAYS HAVE FOR 100 2801 01:38:51,001 --> 01:38:54,000 OR MORE YEARS OF PRODUCING 2802 01:38:54,001 --> 01:38:59,000 ELECTRICITY MAINLY FROM COAL. 2803 01:38:59,001 --> 01:39:03,000 AND SO THAT IS ON THE FRONT 2804 01:39:03,001 --> 01:39:05,000 BURNER, MR. SPEAKER, OF THE 2805 01:39:05,001 --> 01:39:08,000 ISSUES WE'RE DEALING WITH RIGHT 2806 01:39:08,001 --> 01:39:10,000 NOW IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE AND 2807 01:39:10,001 --> 01:39:11,000 THEN OF COURSE THE OTHER ISSUE 2808 01:39:11,001 --> 01:39:15,000 IS REFORMING HEALTH CARE. 2809 01:39:15,001 --> 01:39:16,000 I WOULD LIKE TO START BY TALKING 2810 01:39:16,001 --> 01:39:18,000 ABOUT HEALTH CARE. 2811 01:39:18,001 --> 01:39:21,000 I FEEL A LITTLE BIT MORE 2812 01:39:21,001 --> 01:39:23,000 EXPERTISE IN THAT AREA, DARN 2813 01:39:23,001 --> 01:39:25,000 WELL SHOULD, HAVING SPENT 30 2814 01:39:25,001 --> 01:39:27,000 YEARS PRACTICING MEDICINE. 2815 01:39:27,001 --> 01:39:30,000 I WILL ALLOW TO YOU, MR. 2816 01:39:30,001 --> 01:39:32,000 SPEAKER, AND TO MY OTHER 2817 01:39:32,001 --> 01:39:33,000 COLLEAGUES THAT JUST PRACTICING 2818 01:39:33,001 --> 01:39:35,000 MEDICINE AND SEEING PATIENTS AND 2819 01:39:35,001 --> 01:39:37,000 NOT BEING IN THE RESEARCH 2820 01:39:37,001 --> 01:39:38,000 ENVIRONMENT DOESN'T NECESSARILY 2821 01:39:38,001 --> 01:39:41,000 GIVE YOU ALL THE ANSWERS IN 2822 01:39:41,001 --> 01:39:44,000 REGARD TO HOW WE GO ABOUT 2823 01:39:44,001 --> 01:39:48,000 FUNDING HEALTH CARE FOR 300 2824 01:39:48,001 --> 01:39:49,000 MILLION PEOPLE, HOWE DEAL WITH 2825 01:39:49,001 --> 01:39:51,000 THE MASSIVE EXPENSE OF 2826 01:39:51,001 --> 01:39:55,000 GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS LIKE 2827 01:39:55,001 --> 01:39:56,000 MEDICARE AND MED CARED AND STILL 2828 01:39:56,001 --> 01:39:59,000 -- MEDICAID AND STILL MAKE SURE 2829 01:39:59,001 --> 01:40:01,000 EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTRY HAS 2830 01:40:01,001 --> 01:40:03,000 ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE. 2831 01:40:03,001 --> 01:40:06,000 AND THAT IT IS AFFORDABLE. 2832 01:40:06,001 --> 01:40:08,000 IT IS AFFORDABLE EVEN FOR THOSE 2833 01:40:08,001 --> 01:40:10,000 WHO HAVE MORE THAN ONE SERIOUS 2834 01:40:10,001 --> 01:40:11,000 MEDICAL CONDITION THAT THEY'RE 2835 01:40:11,001 --> 01:40:14,000 DEALING WITH. 2836 01:40:14,001 --> 01:40:18,000 SO WE ALL, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE 2837 01:40:18,001 --> 01:40:19,000 AISLE, MR. SPEAKER, REALIZE THAT 2838 01:40:19,001 --> 01:40:21,000 THIS IS A PROBLEM. 2839 01:40:21,001 --> 01:40:24,000 IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE OUGHT 2840 01:40:24,001 --> 01:40:26,000 TO BE BURYING OUR HEAD IN THE 2841 01:40:26,001 --> 01:40:27,000 SAND AND HOPING IT WILL GO AWAY. 2842 01:40:27,001 --> 01:40:29,000 IT WON'T. 2843 01:40:29,001 --> 01:40:32,000 IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE, JUST 2844 01:40:32,001 --> 01:40:33,000 LIKE THE SOCIAL SECURITY CRIS. 2845 01:40:33,001 --> 01:40:36,000 AS WE GET MORE AND MORE OF OUR 2846 01:40:36,001 --> 01:40:41,000 BABY BOOMERS REACHING THAT MAGIC 2847 01:40:41,001 --> 01:40:44,000 AGE OF 65, THAT WE DON'T HAVE 2848 01:40:44,001 --> 01:40:46,000 ENOUGH PEOPLE WORKING REALLY TO 2849 01:40:46,001 --> 01:40:48,000 PAY INTO THE PAYROLL TAX TO 2850 01:40:48,001 --> 01:40:49,000 PROVIDE THE BENEFIT THAT'S BEEN 2851 01:40:49,001 --> 01:40:51,000 PROMISED. 2852 01:40:51,001 --> 01:40:54,000 AND I KNOW THAT SCARCE OUR 2853 01:40:54,001 --> 01:40:55,000 SENIORS, AND IT SHOULD, ALTHOUGH 2854 01:40:55,001 --> 01:40:58,000 EVERY REFORM THAT WE'VE TALKED 2855 01:40:58,001 --> 01:41:00,000 ABOUT IN REGARD TO SOCIAL 2856 01:41:00,001 --> 01:41:02,000 SECURITY HAS ASSURED AND WILL 2857 01:41:02,001 --> 01:41:04,000 CONTINUE TO ASSURE, I THINK NO 2858 01:41:04,001 --> 01:41:08,000 MATTER WHO IS IN THE MAJORITYP 2859 01:41:08,001 --> 01:41:11,000 HERE OR WHAT THE ADMISTRATION, 2860 01:41:11,001 --> 01:41:12,000 HAS BEEN REPUBLICAN UNDER 2861 01:41:12,001 --> 01:41:13,000 PRESID 2862 01:41:13,001 --> 01:41:14,000 DEMOCRATIC UNDER PRESIDENT 2863 01:41:14,001 --> 01:41:16,000 OBAMA. 2864 01:41:16,001 --> 01:41:17,000 IT WAS DEMOCRATIC UNDER 2865 01:41:17,001 --> 01:41:18,000 PRESIDENT CLINTON AND THESE 2866 01:41:18,001 --> 01:41:20,000 THINGS GO BACK AND FORTH. 2867 01:41:20,001 --> 01:41:23,000 BUT I THINK PEOPLE, SENIORS NEED 2868 01:41:23,001 --> 01:41:27,000 TO BE COMFOR 2869 01:41:27,001 --> 01:41:28,000 IF YOU'RE OVER 55 AS AN EXAMPLE, 2870 01:41:28,001 --> 01:41:32,000 THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ANY 2871 01:41:32,001 --> 01:41:33,000 CHANGES IN SOCIAL SECURITY FOR 2872 01:41:33,001 --> 01:41:35,000 THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WITHIN 10 2873 01:41:35,001 --> 01:41:38,000 YEARS OF RECEIVING THAT BENEFIT. 2874 01:41:38,001 --> 01:41:40,000 BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE 2875 01:41:40,001 --> 01:41:41,000 DON'T FIX THE SYSTEM, WE DON'T 2876 01:41:41,001 --> 01:41:44,000 TRY TO FIX THE SYSTEM FOR OUR 2877 01:41:44,001 --> 01:41:45,000 SONS AND DAUGHTERS AND OUR 2878 01:41:45,001 --> 01:41:48,000 GRANDCHILDREN AS THEY COME 2879 01:41:48,001 --> 01:41:49,000 FORWARD, BECAUSE IF WE DO 2880 01:41:49,001 --> 01:41:51,000 NOTHING, THEN CLEARLY THERE WILL 2881 01:41:51,001 --> 01:41:53,000 BE A TIME WHEN PEOPLE WILL NOT 2882 01:41:53,001 --> 01:41:56,000 GET THE BENEFIT THAT THEIR 2883 01:41:56,001 --> 01:41:57,000 PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS HAVE 2884 01:41:57,001 --> 01:41:58,000 RECEIVED UNDER THIS PROGRAM OF 2885 01:41:58,001 --> 01:42:00,000 SOCIAL SECURITY. 2886 01:42:00,001 --> 01:42:03,000 AND THE SAME THING IS TRUE OF 2887 01:42:03,001 --> 01:42:05,000 MEDICARE AND THAT, OF COURSE, IS 2888 01:42:05,001 --> 01:42:08,000 OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOR OUR 2889 01:42:08,001 --> 01:42:10,000 SENIORS, 65 AND OLDER AND FOR 2890 01:42:10,001 --> 01:42:13,000 THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE YOUNGER, 2891 01:42:13,001 --> 01:42:15,000 BUT ARE DISABLED, TOTALLY 2892 01:42:15,001 --> 01:42:18,000 DISABLED AND NEED THAT HELP. 2893 01:42:18,001 --> 01:42:21,000 SO WE ALL RECOGNIZE THAT THERE'S 2894 01:42:21,001 --> 01:42:23,000 A PROBLEM AND WE'VE RECOGNIZED 2895 01:42:23,001 --> 01:42:26,000 IT FOR A WHILE AND AGREE THAT 2896 01:42:26,001 --> 01:42:30,000 SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE. 2897 01:42:30,001 --> 01:42:32,000 NOW, THE TIMING OF THAT, I THINK 2898 01:42:32,001 --> 01:42:36,000 , IS IN QUESTION WHEN YOU TALK 2899 01:42:36,001 --> 01:42:38,000 TO BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE AND 2900 01:42:38,001 --> 01:42:41,000 SOME ON OUR SIDE OF THE AISLE 2901 01:42:41,001 --> 01:42:42,000 FEEL WE NEED TO GET THE ECONOMY 2902 01:42:42,001 --> 01:42:46,000 BACK ON ITS FEET BEFORE WE SPEND 2903 01:42:46,001 --> 01:42:48,000 HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS -- EXCUSE 2904 01:42:48,001 --> 01:42:50,000 ME, CHANGE THAT M TO A B, 2905 01:42:50,001 --> 01:42:55,000 HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS 2906 01:42:55,001 --> 01:42:56,000 ON TRYING TO REFORM OUR HEALTH 2907 01:42:56,001 --> 01:42:59,000 CARE SYSTEM WHILE WE ARE STILL 2908 01:42:59,001 --> 01:43:01,000 IN A DEEP, DEEP RECESSION AND 2909 01:43:01,001 --> 01:43:03,000 PEOPLE CAN'T GET LOANS, 2910 01:43:03,001 --> 01:43:04,000 BUSINESSES IN PARTICULAR CAN'T 2911 01:43:04,001 --> 01:43:05,000 GET LOANS, PEOPLE ARE STILL 2912 01:43:05,001 --> 01:43:07,000 HAVING A VERY DIFFICULT TIME 2913 01:43:07,001 --> 01:43:12,000 GETTING A MORTGAGE ON THEIR 2914 01:43:12,001 --> 01:43:15,000 HOME, 401K'S ARE DOWN AND 2915 01:43:15,001 --> 01:43:16,000 I.R.A.'S, WHICH IS THE SAVINGS 2916 01:43:16,001 --> 01:43:18,000 THAT PEOPLE HAVE FOR THEIR 2917 01:43:18,001 --> 01:43:21,000 RETIREMENT. 2918 01:43:21,001 --> 01:43:23,000 THAT ALONG WITH SOCI SECURITY. 2919 01:43:23,001 --> 01:43:25,000 I'M KIND OF THE OPINION, MR. 2920 01:43:25,001 --> 01:43:27,000 SPEAKER, THAT WE 2921 01:43:27,001 --> 01:43:31,000 MOVE TOO QUICKLY FOR FEAR THAT 2922 01:43:31,001 --> 01:43:35,000 THE ECONOMY WILL WORSEN AND NOT 2923 01:43:35,001 --> 01:43:39,000 GET BETTER, AND ALSO FOR FEAR IN 2924 01:43:39,001 --> 01:43:42,000 OUR HASTE TO DO SOMETHING EVEN 2925 01:43:42,001 --> 01:43:43,000 IF IT MIGHT BE WRONG, IT WILL BE 2926 01:43:43,001 --> 01:43:48,000 WRONG. 2927 01:43:48,001 --> 01:43:49,000 THAT ADDAGE IS A WRONG-HEADED 2928 01:43:49,001 --> 01:43:52,000 ADDAGE. 2929 01:43:52,001 --> 01:43:53,000 IN ANY REGARD, WE DO AGREE THAT 2930 01:43:53,001 --> 01:43:57,000 IF THE STATISTICS ARE CORRECT 2931 01:43:57,001 --> 01:43:59,000 THAT 47 MILLION IN THE GREAT 2932 01:43:59,001 --> 01:44:00,000 COUNTRY OF THE UNITED STATES GO 2933 01:44:00,001 --> 01:44:04,000 EVERY DAY WITHOUT HEALTH 2934 01:44:04,001 --> 01:44:05,000 INSURANCE, THERE'S SOMETHING 2935 01:44:05,001 --> 01:44:07,000 WRONG WITH OUR SYSTEM AND WE CAN 2936 01:44:07,001 --> 01:44:09,000 DO BETTER IN THAT REGARD. 2937 01:44:09,001 --> 01:44:13,000 WE SHOULD DO BETTER. 2938 01:44:13,001 --> 01:44:15,000 AND AS I WILL TK OVER THE NEXT 2939 01:44:15,001 --> 01:44:17,000 45 MINES OR SO, WE CAN AND 2940 01:44:17,001 --> 01:44:18,000 WILL DO BETTER. 2941 01:44:18,001 --> 01:44:24,000 NOW, MR. SPEAKER, I WOULD LIKE 2942 01:44:24,001 --> 01:44:26,000 TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF OUR 2943 01:44:26,001 --> 01:44:29,000 COLLEAGUES UNDERSTAND SOMETHING. 2944 01:44:29,001 --> 01:44:32,000 I THINK THEY KNOW THIS, THAT 2945 01:44:32,001 --> 01:44:33,000 STATISTICS CAN BE AWFULLY 2946 01:44:33,001 --> 01:44:35,000 MISLEADING. 2947 01:44:35,001 --> 01:44:38,000 THE 47 MILLION UNINSURED 2948 01:44:38,001 --> 01:44:40,000 STATISTIC WAS OBTAINED BY THE 2949 01:44:40,001 --> 01:44:45,000 CENSUS BUREAU. 2950 01:44:45,001 --> 01:44:47,000 AND WHAT DOES THE 2951 01:44:47,001 --> 01:44:52,000 DO? 2952 01:44:52,001 --> 01:44:53,000 YOU GET A CALL FROM THE CENSUS 2953 01:44:53,001 --> 01:44:57,000 BUREAU AND THEY PROBABLY ASKED 2954 01:44:57,001 --> 01:45:00,000 THIS QUESTION, ARE YOU EMPLOYED, 2955 01:45:00,001 --> 01:45:01,000 YES OR NO? 2956 01:45:01,001 --> 01:45:04,000 DO YOU HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE? 2957 01:45:04,001 --> 01:45:06,000 ARE YOU AN ADULT, HEAD OF 2958 01:45:06,001 --> 01:45:11,000 HOUSEHOLD, END OF STORY. 2959 01:45:11,001 --> 01:45:13,000 AND THE RESPONSE FROM 47 MILLION 2960 01:45:13,001 --> 01:45:14,000 IS NO, I DON'T HAVE HEAH 2961 01:45:14,001 --> 01:45:16,000 INSURANCE. 2962 01:45:16,001 --> 01:45:21,000 NOW, THE QUESTION THAT IS NOT 2963 01:45:21,001 --> 01:45:23,000 ASKED IS, ARE YOU A CITIZEN OF 2964 01:45:23,001 --> 01:45:26,000 THE UNITED STATES? 2965 01:45:26,001 --> 01:45:30,000 ARE YO A PERMANENT LEGAL 2966 01:45:30,001 --> 01:45:32,000 RESIDENT, THOUGH NOT A CITIZEN, 2967 01:45:32,001 --> 01:45:34,000 IN OTHER WORDS, A GREEN CARD 2968 01:45:34,001 --> 01:45:37,000 HOLDER. 2969 01:45:37,001 --> 01:45:39,000 ARE YOU HERE LEGALLY ON A 2970 01:45:39,001 --> 01:45:41,000 TEMPORARY WORKER PROGRAM? 2971 01:45:41,001 --> 01:45:45,000 ARE YOU AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. 2972 01:45:45,001 --> 01:45:47,000 I THINK AT THAT POINT, THE PHONE 2973 01:45:47,001 --> 01:45:49,000 WOULD HEAR A LOUD CLICK, BEC 2974 01:45:49,001 --> 01:45:51,000 I'M SURE IF SOMEONE WERE HERE 2975 01:45:51,001 --> 01:45:55,000 ILLEGALLY, THEY'RE NOT LIKELY TO 2976 01:45:55,001 --> 01:45:57,000 GIVE IT TO ANYBODY, ESPECIALLY A CENSUS WORKER. 2977 01:45:57,001 --> 01:46:00,000 BUT THE OTHER QUESTIONS THAT IS 2978 01:46:00,001 --> 01:46:03,000 NOT ASKED IS, HOW LONG IF YOU DO 2979 01:46:03,001 --> 01:46:04,000 HAVE HEA 2980 01:46:04,001 --> 01:46:05,000 THE CIRCUMSTANCES REGARDING 2981 01:46:05,001 --> 01:46:07,000 THAT? 2982 01:46:07,001 --> 01:46:08,000 HOW LONG HAVE YOU GONE WITHOUT 2983 01:46:08,001 --> 01:46:09,000 HEALTH INSURANCE? 2984 01:46:09,001 --> 01:46:12,000 AND THEN YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND 2985 01:46:12,001 --> 01:46:13,000 TH 2986 01:46:13,001 --> 01:46:17,000 JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND THEY 2987 01:46:17,001 --> 01:46:19,000 MIGHT SAY, 2988 01:46:19,001 --> 01:46:21,000 HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE, I HAVE 2989 01:46:21,001 --> 01:46:22,000 THIS COBRA, TEMPORARY HEALTH 2990 01:46:22,001 --> 01:46:24,000 INSURANCE THAT'S ALLOWED WHEN 2991 01:46:24,001 --> 01:46:25,000 YO 2992 01:46:25,001 --> 01:46:27,000 CONTINUE FROM THAT COMPANY. 2993 01:46:27,001 --> 01:46:28,000 IF THE COMPANY WAS PROVIDING THE 2994 01:46:28,001 --> 01:46:31,000 HEALTH INSURANCE, THEN THEY 2995 01:46:31,001 --> 01:46:33,000 WOULD LET YOU CONTINUE, BUT YOU 2996 01:46:33,001 --> 01:46:34,000 WOULD HAVE TO PAY MORE BECAUSE 2997 01:46:34,001 --> 01:46:36,000 YOU WOULD BE OUTSIDE THE GROUP 2998 01:46:36,001 --> 01:46:39,000 RATE, BUT YOU COULD BE COVERED 2999 01:46:39,001 --> 01:46:43,000 FOR 18 MONTHS, HOPEFULLY, YOU 3000 01:46:43,001 --> 01:46:46,000 WOULD LONG RE-EMPLOYED IN 3001 01:46:46,001 --> 01:46:47,000 ANOTHER GROUP POLICY AT A 3002 01:46:47,001 --> 01:46:49,000 REASONABLE RATE. 3003 01:46:49,001 --> 01:46:50,000 A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE WHO SAY I 3004 01:46:50,001 --> 01:46:51,000 DON'T HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE AND 3005 01:46:51,001 --> 01:46:54,000 THEY ADD UP TO THAT MAGIC NUMBER 3006 01:46:54,001 --> 01:46:55,000 OF 47 MILLION, THEY'RE GOING TO 3007 01:46:55,001 --> 01:46:58,000 GET HEALTH INSURANCE WHEN THEY 3008 01:46:58,001 --> 01:46:59,000 GO BACK TO WORK AND PROBABLY 3009 01:46:59,001 --> 01:47:01,000 WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. 3010 01:47:01,001 --> 01:47:02,000 . 3011 01:47:02,001 --> 01:47:04,000 PROBABLY 10 MILLION OF THE 47 3012 01:47:04,001 --> 01:47:05,000 MILLION ARE THE ONE THAT IS 3013 01:47:05,001 --> 01:47:08,000 CLICK THE PHONE DOWN WHEN THEY 3014 01:47:08,001 --> 01:47:09,000 WERE ASKED IF THEY WERE ILLEGAL 3015 01:47:09,001 --> 01:47:15,000 IMMIGRANTS. ABOUT 10 MILLION. 3016 01:47:15,001 --> 01:47:20,000 NOW YOU'RE DOWN TO 37 MILLION. 3017 01:47:20,001 --> 01:47:25,000 AND IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT 3018 01:47:25,001 --> 01:47:26,000 40% OF THE REST MAKE AT LEAST 3019 01:47:26,001 --> 01:47:29,000 $50,000 A YEAR. 3020 01:47:29,001 --> 01:47:32,000 YOU MIGHT SAY, GEE, IF YOU MAKE 3021 01:47:32,001 --> 01:47:34,000 $50,000, EVEN IF YOU'RE A FAMILY 3022 01:47:34,001 --> 01:47:36,000 OF THREE, YOU PROBABLY OUGHT TO 3023 01:47:36,001 --> 01:47:39,000 BE ABLE TO AFFORD HEALTH INSURANCE. 3024 01:47:39,001 --> 01:47:41,000 YOU'RE NOT GOING BE TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAID. 3025 01:47:41,001 --> 01:47:43,000 YOU MAY PROBABLY NOT BE 3026 01:47:43,001 --> 01:47:45,000 ELIGIBLE, NOT IN MY STATE OF GEORGIA. 3027 01:47:45,001 --> 01:47:47,000 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ELIGIBLE 3028 01:47:47,001 --> 01:47:49,000 FOR THE CHIP PROGRAM, PEACH CARE 3029 01:47:49,001 --> 01:47:52,000 WE CALL IT, FOR YOUR CHILDREN. 3030 01:47:52,001 --> 01:47:54,000 AND I'M ASSUMING OF COURSE 3031 01:47:54,001 --> 01:47:55,000 YOU'RE NOT 65 OR DISABLED, YOU 3032 01:47:55,001 --> 01:47:59,000 ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THAT. 3033 01:47:59,001 --> 01:48:00,000 SO WHY DO THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE 3034 01:48:00,001 --> 01:48:02,000 NOT ELIGIBLE FOR ANYTHING ELSE 3035 01:48:02,001 --> 01:48:04,000 AND THEY MAKE AT LEAST $50,000 A 3036 01:48:04,001 --> 01:48:06,000 YEAR, WHY DO THEY CHOOSE NOT TO 3037 01:48:06,001 --> 01:48:10,000 HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE? 3038 01:48:10,001 --> 01:48:13,000 I WOULD GUESS THAT MOST OF THESE 3039 01:48:13,001 --> 01:48:17,000 PEOPLE ARE IN THE WORK FORCE, 3040 01:48:17,001 --> 01:48:20,000 MAYBE THEY ARE SINGLE, THEY ARE 3041 01:48:20,001 --> 01:48:25,000 PROBAB BETWEEN THE AGES OF 21 3042 01:48:25,001 --> 01:48:26,000 AND 40, MANY OF THEM ARE 3043 01:48:26,001 --> 01:48:28,000 ATHLETES, NOT PROFESSIONAL 3044 01:48:28,001 --> 01:48:31,000 ATHLETES, I DON'T MEAN TO IMPLY 3045 01:48:31,001 --> 01:48:35,000 THAT, BUT ATHLETIC, ENGAGE IN 3046 01:48:35,001 --> 01:48:38,000 SPORTS, WORK OUT, AND HAVE GOOD 3047 01:48:38,001 --> 01:48:41,000 GENES. 3048 01:48:41,001 --> 01:48:46,000 GRANDPARENTS LIVE TO LATE 80'S, 3049 01:48:46,001 --> 01:48:48,000 EARLY 90'S, MAYBE THEY GOT THE 3050 01:48:48,001 --> 01:48:49,000 METHUSELAH GENE WHERE THEIR 3051 01:48:49,001 --> 01:48:50,000 RELATIVES LIVE INTO THE 3052 01:48:50,001 --> 01:48:54,000 HUNDREDS. 3053 01:48:54,001 --> 01:48:57,000 WHY SHOULD I TAKE $250, $300 A 3054 01:48:57,001 --> 01:49:00,000 MONTH, WHATEVER IT COSTS, MAYBE 3055 01:49:00,001 --> 01:49:01,000 $400 A MONTH, AND BUY HEALTH 3056 01:49:01,001 --> 01:49:02,000 INSURANCE WHEN I DON'T EVEN GO 3057 01:49:02,001 --> 01:49:03,000 TO THE DOCTOR EVERY YEAR. 3058 01:49:03,001 --> 01:49:05,000 I DON'T NEED TO. 3059 01:49:05,001 --> 01:49:07,000 NEVER EVEN GET A COLD. 3060 01:49:07,001 --> 01:49:10,000 I DON'T TAKE ANY PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS. 3061 01:49:10,001 --> 01:49:11,000 I MIGHT TAKE A VITAMIN. 3062 01:49:11,001 --> 01:49:14,000 SO A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE THAT 3063 01:49:14,001 --> 01:49:17,000 WOULD ROLL THE DICE AND SAY, I DON'T NEED IT. 3064 01:49:17,001 --> 01:49:20,000 AND I'M VERY DISCIPLINED PERSON 3065 01:49:20,001 --> 01:49:26,000 AND I'LL TAKE THAT $350 A MONTH 3066 01:49:26,001 --> 01:49:28,000 AND PUT IT INTO NOT A PASS BOOK 3067 01:49:28,001 --> 01:49:30,000 SAVINGS, BUT INVEST IN A MUTUAL 3068 01:49:30,001 --> 01:49:31,000 FUND AND EVERY MONTH I PUT INTO 3069 01:49:31,001 --> 01:49:34,000 IT. 3070 01:49:34,001 --> 01:49:36,000 THE MUTUAL FUND WHEN IT GOES UP 3071 01:49:36,001 --> 01:49:37,000 IN VALUE MY MONEY DOESN'T BUY AS 3072 01:49:37,001 --> 01:49:39,000 MANY SHARES, BUT WHEN IT GOES 3073 01:49:39,001 --> 01:49:42,000 DOWN IN VALUE IT BUYS MORE SHARES. 3074 01:49:42,001 --> 01:49:44,000 THAT'S WHAT WE CALL DOLLAR COST AVERAGING. 3075 01:49:44,001 --> 01:49:45,000 AND GEE, YOU KNOW, OVER A 3076 01:49:45,001 --> 01:49:47,000 -YEAR PERIOD OF TIME I'M GOING 3077 01:49:47,001 --> 01:49:49,000 TO HAVE A TON OF MONEY AND OVER 3078 01:49:49,001 --> 01:49:50,000 30-YEAR PERIOD OF TIME I MAY 3079 01:49:50,001 --> 01:49:54,000 HAVE A QUARTER OF A MILLION 3080 01:49:54,001 --> 01:49:56,000 DOLLARS THAT I HAVE SAVED BY NOT 3081 01:49:56,001 --> 01:49:57,000 TAKING OUT A HEALTH INSURANCE 3082 01:49:57,001 --> 01:49:59,000 POLICY. 3083 01:49:59,001 --> 01:50:00,000 I DON'T RECOMMEND IT, MR. 3084 01:50:00,001 --> 01:50:01,000 SPEAKER. 3085 01:50:01,001 --> 01:50:04,000 I DON'T THINK AS A PHYSICIAN 3086 01:50:04,001 --> 01:50:06,000 MEMBER THINK IT'S A BAD BET. 3087 01:50:06,001 --> 01:50:07,000 YOU'RE ROLLING THE DICE. 3088 01:50:07,001 --> 01:50:10,000 YOU MIGHT GET LUCKY BUT YOU 3089 01:50:10,001 --> 01:50:11,000 COULD WRAP OUT. 3090 01:50:11,001 --> 01:50:12,000 -- CRAP OUT. 3091 01:50:12,001 --> 01:50:15,000 IN OTHER WORDS COME DOWN WITH 3092 01:50:15,001 --> 01:50:16,000 CANCER OR AGE 35 HAVE A HEART 3093 01:50:16,001 --> 01:50:19,000 ATTACK AND THEN OF COURSE YOU 3094 01:50:19,001 --> 01:50:21,000 WOULD BE OUT OF LUCK. 3095 01:50:21,001 --> 01:50:23,000 AND 3096 01:50:23,001 --> 01:50:25,000 GETTING INSURED, OR IF YOU COULD 3097 01:50:25,001 --> 01:50:27,000 -- HAD ACCESS TO INSURANCE, IT 3098 01:50:27,001 --> 01:50:31,000 WOULD BE SO EXPENSIVE BECAUSE 3099 01:50:31,001 --> 01:50:33,000 NOW YOU'RE A PREFERRED RISK. 3100 01:50:33,001 --> 01:50:35,000 AND IT'S ONLY APPROPRIATE, THEN, 3101 01:50:35,001 --> 01:50:36,000 THAT THE INSURANCE WOULD COST 3102 01:50:36,001 --> 01:50:38,000 YOU MORE. 3103 01:50:38,001 --> 01:50:42,000 IF YOU LOOK AT OUR MEDICARE 3104 01:50:42,001 --> 01:50:45,000 PROGRAM ON PART B, THE VOLUNTARY 3105 01:50:45,001 --> 01:50:47,000 PART, PART A OF COURSE 65 AND 3106 01:50:47,001 --> 01:50:49,000 DISABLED, YOU'RE AUTOMATICALLY 3107 01:50:49,001 --> 01:50:51,000 IN PART A, THE HOSPITAL PART OR 3108 01:50:51,001 --> 01:50:53,000 THE PART THAT COVERS NURSING 3109 01:50:53,001 --> 01:50:55,000 HOME CARE. 3110 01:50:55,001 --> 01:50:58,000 BUT FOR SEEING A DOCTOR AND 3111 01:50:58,001 --> 01:51:00,000 PAYING SURGICAL FEES AND HAVING 3112 01:51:00,001 --> 01:51:02,000 OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC TESTS 3113 01:51:02,001 --> 01:51:04,000 DONE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE THE 3114 01:51:04,001 --> 01:51:06,000 PART B OF MEDICARE. 3115 01:51:06,001 --> 01:51:09,000 NOR DO YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE PART 3116 01:51:09,001 --> 01:51:11,000 D, THE PRESCRIPTION DRUG PART OF MEDICARE. 3117 01:51:11,001 --> 01:51:15,000 THAT'S OPTIONAL. 3118 01:51:15,001 --> 01:51:16,000 YOU MIGHT DECIDE TO BECAUSE 3119 01:51:16,001 --> 01:51:17,000 YOU'RE STILL WORKING TO CONTINUE 3120 01:51:17,001 --> 01:51:20,000 TO GET YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE 3121 01:51:20,001 --> 01:51:22,000 FROM YOUR COMPANY. 3122 01:51:22,001 --> 01:51:25,000 OR YOU MIGHT DECIDE, WELL, HERE 3123 01:51:25,001 --> 01:51:27,000 AGAIN I JUST -- I'M HEALTHY AND 3124 01:51:27,001 --> 01:51:29,000 I NEVER BOUGHT INSURANCE BEFORE 3125 01:51:29,001 --> 01:51:31,000 I GOT ELIGI 3126 01:51:31,001 --> 01:51:32,000 I'LL TAKE THE PART A BECAUSE 3127 01:51:32,001 --> 01:51:33,000 THAT'S KIND OF GIVEN. 3128 01:51:33,001 --> 01:51:35,000 I GET THAT. 3129 01:51:35,001 --> 01:51:36,000 FREE SO TO SPEAK. 3130 01:51:36,001 --> 01:51:39,000 SOMEBODY ELSE IS PAYING FOR IT. 3131 01:51:39,001 --> 01:51:41,000 AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS 3132 01:51:41,001 --> 01:51:42,000 PART B. 3133 01:51:42,001 --> 01:51:44,000 YOU HAVE THAT OPTION. 3134 01:51:44,001 --> 01:51:46,000 NOBODY FORCES ANYBODY TO SIGN UP 3135 01:51:46,001 --> 01:51:49,000 FOR PART A OR PART B. 3136 01:51:49,001 --> 01:51:52,000 AND OF COURSE HERE AGAIN IF YOU 3137 01:51:52,001 --> 01:51:54,000 GET SICK TWO YEARS LATER NOW 3138 01:51:54,001 --> 01:51:56,000 YOU'RE 67, LET'S SAY, AND YOU 3139 01:51:56,001 --> 01:51:59,000 CALL UP SOCIAL SECURITY, SAY, 3140 01:51:59,001 --> 01:52:01,000 OH, I HAVE DECIDED NOW I THINK I 3141 01:52:01,001 --> 01:52:06,000 WANT TO SIGN UP FOR MEDICARE 3142 01:52:06,001 --> 01:52:08,000 PART B AND PART D BECAUSE NOW I 3143 01:52:08,001 --> 01:52:10,000 HAD A HEART ATTACK AND I'M ON 3144 01:52:10,001 --> 01:52:11,000 FIVE MEDICATIONS. 3145 01:52:11,001 --> 01:52:13,000 SOMETHING TO LOWER MY 3146 01:52:13,001 --> 01:52:16,000 CHOLESTEROL, SOMETHING TO MAKE 3147 01:52:16,001 --> 01:52:19,000 MY HEARTBEAT STRONGER, I'M ON A 3148 01:52:19,001 --> 01:52:21,000 WATER PILL, SO I DON'T BUILD UP 3149 01:52:21,001 --> 01:52:23,000 TOO MUCH FLUID. 3150 01:52:23,001 --> 01:52:25,000 OH, BY THE WAY I HAVE COME DOWN 3151 01:52:25,001 --> 01:52:27,000 WITH THE GOUT. 3152 01:52:27,001 --> 01:52:30,000 WELL, YOU CAN SIGN UP AT THAT 3153 01:52:30,001 --> 01:52:32,000 POINT FOR MEDICARE PART B AND 3154 01:52:32,001 --> 01:52:33,000 PART D, BUT THE FEDERAL 3155 01:52:33,001 --> 01:52:35,000 GOVERNMENT SAYS IT'S GOING TO 3156 01:52:35,001 --> 01:52:38,000 COST YOU MORE. 3157 01:52:38,001 --> 01:52:40,000 BECAUSE NOW YOU ARE MUC 3158 01:52:40,001 --> 01:52:41,000 RISK. 3159 01:52:41,001 --> 01:52:44,000 WELL, THAT'S THE WAY PRIVATE 3160 01:52:44,001 --> 01:52:45,000 INSURANCE WORKS AS WELL. 3161 01:52:45,001 --> 01:52:46,000 WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS 3162 01:52:46,001 --> 01:52:48,000 GOOD FOR THE GANDER. 3163 01:52:48,001 --> 01:52:50,000 IT WOULD BE INAPPROPRIATE FOR US 3164 01:52:50,001 --> 01:52:52,000 TO SAY TO THE PRIVATE MARKET, 3165 01:52:52,001 --> 01:52:57,000 INSURANCE COMPANIES WHO ARE 3166 01:52:57,001 --> 01:52:58,000 INSURING YOUNGER PEOPLE THAT IF 3167 01:52:58,001 --> 01:53:00,000 SOMEONE DECIDES THEY DON'T WANT 3168 01:53:00,001 --> 01:53:01,000 HEALTH INSURANCE UNTIL THEY GET 3169 01:53:01,001 --> 01:53:03,000 SICK, THEN CLEARLY THEY ARE 3170 01:53:03,001 --> 01:53:04,000 GOING TO HAVE TO PAY MORE. 3171 01:53:04,001 --> 01:53:06,000 CLEARLY THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE 3172 01:53:06,001 --> 01:53:08,000 TO PAY MORE. 3173 01:53:08,001 --> 01:53:12,000 SO THOSE PEOPLE THAT MAKE MORE 3174 01:53:12,001 --> 01:53:14,000 THAN $50,000 A YEAR AND ELECT 3175 01:53:14,001 --> 01:53:15,000 NOT TO TAKE HEALTH INSURANCE 3176 01:53:15,001 --> 01:53:17,000 THAT THEY COULD AFFORD TO PAY 3177 01:53:17,001 --> 01:53:18,000 FOR, THEY ARE TAKING A CHANCE, 3178 01:53:18,001 --> 01:53:20,000 THEY ARE ROLLING THE DICE, BUT 3179 01:53:20,001 --> 01:53:21,000 IN THIS COUNTRY THANK GOD, YOU 3180 01:53:21,001 --> 01:53:24,000 CAN DO THAT. 3181 01:53:24,001 --> 01:53:28,000 YOU'RE FREE TO DO THAT. 3182 01:53:28,001 --> 01:53:29,000 SO A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE 3183 01:53:29,001 --> 01:53:31,000 INCLUDED WHEN THE CENSUS BUREAU 3184 01:53:31,001 --> 01:53:33,000 CALLS AND SAYS DO YOU HAVE 3185 01:53:33,001 --> 01:53:37,000 INSURANCE, THEY ARE IN THAT GROUP. 3186 01:53:37,001 --> 01:53:39,000 THEY ARE IN THAT GROUP. 3187 01:53:39,001 --> 01:53:40,000 IT IS ALSO ESTIMATED THAT AS 3188 01:53:40,001 --> 01:53:44,000 MANY AS 10 MILLION OF THE 47 3189 01:53:44,001 --> 01:53:45,000 MILLION, GUESS WHAT, ARE 3190 01:53:45,001 --> 01:53:47,000 ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAID. 3191 01:53:47,001 --> 01:53:48,000 THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT. 3192 01:53:48,001 --> 01:53:50,000 THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT. 3193 01:53:50,001 --> 01:53:52,000 THEY DIDN'T BOTHER TO INQUIRE. 3194 01:53:52,001 --> 01:53:53,000 OR MAYBE BE SOMEBODY GAVE THEM 3195 01:53:53,001 --> 01:53:54,000 SOME MISINFORMATION. 3196 01:53:54,001 --> 01:53:57,000 THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE MAKING 3197 01:53:57,001 --> 01:53:59,000 TOO MUCH MONEY. 3198 01:53:59,001 --> 01:54:00,000 AND THEIR CHILDREN ARE ELIGIBLE 3199 01:54:00,001 --> 01:54:01,000 FOR THE CHIP PROGRAM, THE 3200 01:54:01,001 --> 01:54:02,000 CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE 3201 01:54:02,001 --> 01:54:05,000 PROGRAM WHICH IS A VERY GENEROUS 3202 01:54:05,001 --> 01:54:07,000 ON THE PART OF THE FEDERAL 3203 01:54:07,001 --> 01:54:08,000 GOVERNMENT, FEDERAL-STATE PARTNERSHIP. 3204 01:54:08,001 --> 01:54:09,000 EVEN MORE GENEROUS THAN 3205 01:54:09,001 --> 01:54:11,000 MEDICAID. 3206 01:54:11,001 --> 01:54:13,000 YOU TAKE THOSE PEOPLE, SUB TRACT 3207 01:54:13,001 --> 01:54:14,000 THEM FROM THE NUMBER -- SUBTRACT 3208 01:54:14,001 --> 01:54:16,000 THEM FROM THE NUMBER, AND YOU 3209 01:54:16,001 --> 01:54:18,000 PROBABLY END UP, MR. SPEAKER, 3210 01:54:18,001 --> 01:54:22,000 WITH I'M GOING TO BE GENEROUS 3211 01:54:22,001 --> 01:54:24,000 HERE AND SAY 15 MILLION TO 20 3212 01:54:24,001 --> 01:54:27,000 MILLION THAT DON'T HAVE 3213 01:54:27,001 --> 01:54:31,000 INSURANCE. 3214 01:54:31,001 --> 01:54:33,000 OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. 3215 01:54:33,001 --> 01:54:36,000 IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ALL OF US 3216 01:54:36,001 --> 01:54:38,000 LISTEN TO WHAT I SAID ABOUT THAT 3217 01:54:38,001 --> 01:54:42,000 NUMBER NOT BEING 47 MILLION. 3218 01:54:42,001 --> 01:54:45,000 BECAUSE STATISTICS IF THEY ARE 3219 01:54:45,001 --> 01:54:47,000 NOT ACCURATE CAN CAUSE US FROM A 3220 01:54:47,001 --> 01:54:49,000 POLICY PERSPECTIVE, EVEN FROM A 3221 01:54:49,001 --> 01:54:52,000 POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE, TO MAKE 3222 01:54:52,001 --> 01:54:57,000 SOME HUGE MISTAKES. 3223 01:54:57,001 --> 01:54:58,000 SPENDING $2 BILLION OR MORE, 3224 01:54:58,001 --> 01:55:00,000 $3.5 BILLION MAYBE BECAUSE WE 3225 01:55:00,001 --> 01:55:03,000 STILL HAVE SOME MONEY LEFT OVER 3226 01:55:03,001 --> 01:55:05,000 FROM THE $6 BILLION THAT WE PUT 3227 01:55:05,001 --> 01:55:07,000 IN THE TREASURY, TOOK OUT OF THE 3228 01:55:07,001 --> 01:55:09,000 TREASURY, PUT IN HEALTH AND 3229 01:55:09,001 --> 01:55:11,000 HUMAN SERVICES AND THE C.D.C. 3230 01:55:11,001 --> 01:55:13,000 FOR COMBATING BIRD FLU, WHICH 3231 01:55:13,001 --> 01:55:15,000 NEVER REALLY OCCURRED IN THIS 3232 01:55:15,001 --> 01:55:17,000 COUNTRY, AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO 3233 01:55:17,001 --> 01:55:18,000 PROBABLY PUT ANOTHER $2 BILLION 3234 01:55:18,001 --> 01:55:23,000 INTO THE SUPPLEMENTAL BILL 3235 01:55:23,001 --> 01:55:26,000 COMING UP TO TREAT THE INFLUENZA 3236 01:55:26,001 --> 01:55:27,000 TYPE AH 1 N 1, FORGIVE ME IF I 3237 01:55:27,001 --> 01:55:29,000 SAY AT LEAST ONE TIME, SWINE 3238 01:55:29,001 --> 01:55:32,000 FLU. 3239 01:55:32,001 --> 01:55:34,000 WHICH IS -- AND I HOPE AND PRAY 3240 01:55:34,001 --> 01:55:36,000 I DON'T HAVE TO EAT THESE WORDS, 3241 01:55:36,001 --> 01:55:39,000 IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO TURN OUT 3242 01:55:39,001 --> 01:55:42,000 TO BE A FAIRLY MILD TYPE OF FLU. 3243 01:55:42,001 --> 01:55:44,000 NOT AS SEVERE, MR. SPEAKER, AS 3244 01:55:44,001 --> 01:55:47,000 YOUR SEASONAL FLU WHICH ON A 3245 01:55:47,001 --> 01:55:52,000 YEARLY BASIS OVER MANY YEARS WE 3246 01:55:52,001 --> 01:55:56,000 HAVE LOST 35,000 PEOPLE, 35,000 3247 01:55:56,001 --> 01:55:58,000 PEOPLE DYING FROM THE REGULAR SEASONAL FLU. 3248 01:55:58,001 --> 01:56:01,000 EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE DEVELOPED -- 3249 01:56:01,001 --> 01:56:03,000 WE HAVE A VACCINE EVERY YEAR 3250 01:56:03,001 --> 01:56:04,000 -- WE TRY TO ANTICIPATE WHAT 3251 01:56:04,001 --> 01:56:05,000 NEXT YEAR'S FLU IS GOING TO LOOK 3252 01:56:05,001 --> 01:56:07,000 LIKE. 3253 01:56:07,001 --> 01:56:08,000 THE C.D.C. DOES A GREAT BE JOB 3254 01:56:08,001 --> 01:56:10,000 ON THAT BY THE WAY. 3255 01:56:10,001 --> 01:56:12,000 THE FLU VACCINE IS GOOD AND 3256 01:56:12,001 --> 01:56:13,000 CERTAINLY IS GOOD FOR THE 3257 01:56:13,001 --> 01:56:14,000 ELDERLY AND IMMUNE COMPROMISED 3258 01:56:14,001 --> 01:56:17,000 AND VERY YOUNG. 3259 01:56:17,001 --> 01:56:18,000 I'M NOT OPPOSED TO THAT AT ALL. 3260 01:56:18,001 --> 01:56:20,000 I THINK IT'S A GOOD PROGRAM. 3261 01:56:20,001 --> 01:56:23,000 I COMMEND THE C.D.C. 3262 01:56:23,001 --> 01:56:26,000 BUT AGAIN I MEAN WE TEND TO 3263 01:56:26,001 --> 01:56:28,000 REACT TO THE LATEST CRISIS 3264 01:56:28,001 --> 01:56:30,000 SOMETIMES IT'S MEDIA DRIVEN, 3265 01:56:30,001 --> 01:56:33,000 THIS MEDIA FRENZY, LITERALLY 3266 01:56:33,001 --> 01:56:35,000 CREATING A PANDEMIC, YES. 3267 01:56:35,001 --> 01:56:39,000 NOT A PANDEMIC OF THE FLU, BUT 3268 01:56:39,001 --> 01:56:40,000 PANDEMIC OF PANIC. 3269 01:56:40,001 --> 01:56:46,000 SO WHAT'S THE PRESIDENT TO DO? 3270 01:56:46,001 --> 01:56:47,000 HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET KATRINA' 3271 01:56:47,001 --> 01:56:48,000 D OVER THIS THING. 3272 01:56:48,001 --> 01:56:50,000 SO WE THROW A LOT OF MONEY AT IT 3273 01:56:50,001 --> 01:56:54,000 THAT MAY WELL NOT BE NECESSARY. 3274 01:56:54,001 --> 01:56:57,000 AS I TALK ABOUT HEALTH CARE AND 3275 01:56:57,001 --> 01:56:59,000 THE NEED FOR REFORM AND BRING UP 3276 01:56:59,001 --> 01:57:01,000 SOME OF THESE STATISTICS AND TRY 3277 01:57:01,001 --> 01:57:03,000 TO PEEL THE LAYERS, UNION BACK 3278 01:57:03,001 --> 01:57:05,000 AND GET TO THE REAL FACTS SO 3279 01:57:05,001 --> 01:57:08,000 THAT WE KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM 3280 01:57:08,001 --> 01:57:11,000 IS, HOW CAN YOU KNOW WHAT THE 3281 01:57:11,001 --> 01:57:16,000 RESPONSE IS IF YOU DON'T REALLY 3282 01:57:16,001 --> 01:57:20,000 DEFINE THE PROBLEM? 3283 01:57:20,001 --> 01:57:22,000 SO THAT'S WHAT THE LOYAL 3284 01:57:22,001 --> 01:57:25,000 OPPOSITION, THE MINORITY PARTY, 3285 01:57:25,001 --> 01:57:27,000 IN THIS CASE THE REPUBLICAN 3286 01:57:27,001 --> 01:57:28,000 PARTY, HAS THE RESPONSIBILITY TO 3287 01:57:28,001 --> 01:57:30,000 DO. 3288 01:57:30,001 --> 01:57:31,000 THAT'S WHAT MAKES OUR SYSTEM 3289 01:57:31,001 --> 01:57:34,000 WORK. 3290 01:57:34,001 --> 01:57:36,000 THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT GREAT. 3291 01:57:36,001 --> 01:57:39,000 UNLESS WE DON'T GO THROUGH 3292 01:57:39,001 --> 01:57:42,000 REGULAR ORDER AND DON'T GET AN 3293 01:57:42,001 --> 01:57:43,000 OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN AND 3294 01:57:43,001 --> 01:57:45,000 MAYBE THE ONLY OPPORTUNITY WE 3295 01:57:45,001 --> 01:57:48,000 GET TO WEIGH IN ON THE MINORITY 3296 01:57:48,001 --> 01:57:52,000 SIDE IS THESE LATE AFTERNOON AND 3297 01:57:52,001 --> 01:57:54,000 LATE EVENING AFTER SCHOOL'S OUT 3298 01:57:54,001 --> 01:57:56,000 OPPORTUNITIES TO TALK ON THE 3299 01:57:56,001 --> 01:57:59,000 HOUSE FLOOR AND INFORM. 3300 01:57:59,001 --> 01:58:01,000 YOU HOPE EVERYBODY'S LISTENING, 3301 01:58:01,001 --> 01:58:02,000 BUT MAYBE NOT. 3302 01:58:02,001 --> 01:58:04,000 MAYBE NOT. 3303 01:58:04,001 --> 01:58:06,000 SO AS I STAND HERE THIS EVENING 3304 01:58:06,001 --> 01:58:10,000 AND TALK ABOUT HEALTH CARE 3305 01:58:10,001 --> 01:58:13,000 REFORM AND ALSO THE ENERGY BILL, 3306 01:58:13,001 --> 01:58:14,000 IT'S NOT TO BE PARTISAN 3307 01:58:14,001 --> 01:58:15,000 POLITICAL. 3308 01:58:15,001 --> 01:58:17,000 IT'S TO TAKE WHATEVER 3309 01:58:17,001 --> 01:58:19,000 OPPORTUNITY, MR. SPEAKER, THAT I 3310 01:58:19,001 --> 01:58:22,000 AS A MEMBER OF THE MINORITY 3311 01:58:22,001 --> 01:58:26,000 PARTY CAN GRAB ON TO ON BEHALF 3312 01:58:26,001 --> 01:58:28,000 OF OUR LEADERSHIP, JOHN BOEHNER, 3313 01:58:28,001 --> 01:58:30,000 AND ERIC CANTOR, AND OTHER 3314 01:58:30,001 --> 01:58:32,000 LEADERS ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE 3315 01:58:32,001 --> 01:58:35,000 TO PUT THE MESSAGE OUT. 3316 01:58:35,001 --> 01:58:37,000 AND THEY TRUST ME ON CERTAIN ISSUES. 3317 01:58:37,001 --> 01:58:38,000 OTHER MEMBERS ON OTHER ISSUES, 3318 01:58:38,001 --> 01:58:39,000 BECAUSE OF THE BACKGROUND THAT I 3319 01:58:39,001 --> 01:58:40,000 HAVE. 3320 01:58:40,001 --> 01:58:44,000 IN THIS CASE A BACKGROUND OF 30 3321 01:58:44,001 --> 01:58:47,000 YEARS OF PRACTICING MEDICINE AS 3322 01:58:47,001 --> 01:58:48,000 AN OB/GYN SPECIALIST IN 3323 01:58:48,001 --> 01:58:50,000 NORTHWEST GEORGIA. 3324 01:58:50,001 --> 01:58:52,000 I DON'T HAVE THE LAST WORD ON THIS. 3325 01:58:52,001 --> 01:58:59,000 MAYBE THE LAST WORD COMES FROM 3326 01:58:59,001 --> 01:59:00,000 SOMEBODY LIKE GUPTA FOR CNN OR 3327 01:59:00,001 --> 01:59:01,000 ROSENFELD FOR FOX NEWS. 3328 01:59:01,001 --> 01:59:03,000 I COMMEND EITHER ONE OF THOSE 3329 01:59:03,001 --> 01:59:04,000 GREAT DOCTORS ON SUNDAY MORNING 3330 01:59:04,001 --> 01:59:07,000 WHERE THEY DO 30-MINUTE SHOWS 3331 01:59:07,001 --> 01:59:09,000 AND TALK ABOUT ISSUES LIKE HOW 3332 01:59:09,001 --> 01:59:11,000 SHOULD WE REFORM HEALTH CARE, 3333 01:59:11,001 --> 01:59:13,000 HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND TO THIS 3334 01:59:13,001 --> 01:59:15,000 LATEST FLU CRISIS? 3335 01:59:15,001 --> 01:59:17,000 WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOUR CHILD 3336 01:59:17,001 --> 01:59:19,000 GETS A LITTLE BIT SICK AND 3337 01:59:19,001 --> 01:59:22,000 YOU'RE WORRIED. 3338 01:59:22,001 --> 01:59:24,000 THOSE FOLKS DO A GREAT JOB. 3339 01:59:24,001 --> 01:59:25,000 BUT WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY 3340 01:59:25,001 --> 01:59:27,000 HERE TO SHARE OUR KNOWLEDGE AS 3341 01:59:27,001 --> 01:59:31,000 WELL. 3342 01:59:31,001 --> 01:59:34,000 SO AS I TALK, MR. SPEAKER, ABOUT 3343 01:59:34,001 --> 01:59:36,000 THAT 47 MILLION, I WANTED TO 3344 01:59:36,001 --> 01:59:38,000 MAKE SURE THAT TO THE BEST OF MY 3345 01:59:38,001 --> 01:59:42,000 KNOWLEDGE I THINK I'M GIVEN 3346 01:59:42,001 --> 01:59:45,000 ACCURATE INFORMA 3347 01:59:45,001 --> 01:59:46,000 TRULY ONLY 15 MILLION TO 20 3348 01:59:46,001 --> 01:59:48,000 MILLION PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY 3349 01:59:48,001 --> 01:59:51,000 ARE FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS 3350 01:59:51,001 --> 01:59:52,000 IN REGARD TO NOT HAVING THE 3351 01:59:52,001 --> 01:59:55,000 ABILITY FINANCIALLY AND MAYBE 3352 01:59:55,001 --> 01:59:58,000 NOT HAVING THE ACCESS TO 3353 01:59:58,001 --> 02:00:00,000 INSURANCE AND HAVING NO CHOICE 3354 02:00:00,001 --> 02:00:04,000 BUT TO SHOW UP IN THE EMERGENCY 3355 02:00:04,001 --> 02:00:08,000 ROOM LATE AT NIGHT AND GETTING 3356 02:00:08,001 --> 02:00:10,000 VERY EXPENSIVE CARE AND 3357 02:00:10,001 --> 02:00:13,000 SUBSTANDARD CARE ONLY BECAUSE 3358 02:00:13,001 --> 02:00:14,000 THE DOCTORS -- THE HEALTH CARE 3359 02:00:14,001 --> 02:00:16,000 PROVIDERS THERE DON'T KNOW THEM. 3360 02:00:16,001 --> 02:00:18,000 THEY DON'T KNOW THEIR MEDICAL 3361 02:00:18,001 --> 02:00:20,000 HISTORY, AND WE DON'T HAVE 3362 02:00:20,001 --> 02:00:23,000 ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS NOW 3363 02:00:23,001 --> 02:00:24,000 AS WE SHOULD HAVE, AS PRESIDENT 3364 02:00:24,001 --> 02:00:25,000 BUSH HAS CALLED FOR, AS 3365 02:00:25,001 --> 02:00:28,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS CALLED FOR, 3366 02:00:28,001 --> 02:00:30,000 AS I TOTALLY AGREE WITH BY 2014 3367 02:00:30,001 --> 02:00:33,000 IF NOT EVEN SOONER. 3368 02:00:33,001 --> 02:00:35,000 YOU OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO IN A 3369 02:00:35,001 --> 02:00:37,000 SITUATION LIKE THAT OR EVEN IF 3370 02:00:37,001 --> 02:00:39,000 IT'S SOMEBODY THAT'S WELL 3371 02:00:39,001 --> 02:00:40,000 INSURED AND THEY JUST ON 3372 02:00:40,001 --> 02:00:43,000 VACATION AND THEY GET THIS GREAT 3373 02:00:43,001 --> 02:00:45,000 OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO RUSSIA OR 3374 02:00:45,001 --> 02:00:47,000 SOMEWHERE AND OBVIOUSLY MOST 3375 02:00:47,001 --> 02:00:49,000 PEOPLE DON'T SPEAK THE LANGUAGE 3376 02:00:49,001 --> 02:00:51,000 THERE, AND THE DOCTORS DON'T 3377 02:00:51,001 --> 02:00:53,000 SPEAK ENGLISH, AND YOU SHOW UP 3378 02:00:53,001 --> 02:00:54,000 IN AN EMERGENCY ROOM AND THEY 3379 02:00:54,001 --> 02:00:56,000 DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU 3380 02:00:56,001 --> 02:00:58,000 AND WHAT YOUR PAST HISTORY IS 3381 02:00:58,001 --> 02:01:01,000 AND WHAT MEDICATIONS YOU'RE ON. 3382 02:01:01,001 --> 02:01:04,000 BUT IF YOU HAD A RADIO FREQUENCY 3383 02:01:04,001 --> 02:01:06,000 IDENTIFIED CARD, HEALTH CARE 3384 02:01:06,001 --> 02:01:07,000 CARD, SMALLER MAYBE THAN AN 3385 02:01:07,001 --> 02:01:09,000 AMERICAN EXPRESS CARD THAT YOU 3386 02:01:09,001 --> 02:01:10,000 COULD JUST SWIPE, LIKE ONE OF 3387 02:01:10,001 --> 02:01:15,000 THESE CLEAR CARDS THAT SOME OF 3388 02:01:15,001 --> 02:01:17,000 US USE TO GO THROUGH SECURITY AT 3389 02:01:17,001 --> 02:01:21,000 THE AIRPORT, READ YOUR IRIS SCAN 3390 02:01:21,001 --> 02:01:26,000 OR WHATEVER, AND IT'S GOT EVERY 3391 02:01:26,001 --> 02:01:27,000 BIT OF MEDICAL INFORMATION, 3392 02:01:27,001 --> 02:01:31,000 EVERY OPERATION THAT YOU HAVE 3393 02:01:31,001 --> 02:01:36,000 EVER HAD, EVERY ALLERGY, EVERY 3394 02:01:36,001 --> 02:01:39,000 PRESCRIPTION THAT YOU'RE ON, AND 3395 02:01:39,001 --> 02:01:40,000 THE LANGUAGE IS IMMEDIATELY 3396 02:01:40,001 --> 02:01:42,000 TRANSFERRED FROM ENGLISH TO 3397 02:01:42,001 --> 02:01:44,000 RUSSIAN OR RUSSIAN TO ENGLISH OR 3398 02:01:44,001 --> 02:01:48,000 WHATEVER, AND THAT'S WHAT WE 3399 02:01:48,001 --> 02:01:51,000 CALL FULLY INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC 3400 02:01:51,001 --> 02:01:52,000 MEDICAL RECORDS. 3401 02:01:52,001 --> 02:01:54,000 AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 3402 02:01:54,001 --> 02:01:55,000 THANK GOODNESS, IS WORKING ON THAT. 3403 02:01:55,001 --> 02:02:02,000 AND WORKING VERY HARD ON IT. 3404 02:02:02,001 --> 02:02:04,000 . 3405 02:02:04,001 --> 02:02:07,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA PUT $18 BILLION 3406 02:02:07,001 --> 02:02:08,000 IN THE ECONOMIC STIMULUS 3407 02:02:08,001 --> 02:02:11,000 PACKAGE, RECOVERY ACT OF 2009 3408 02:02:11,001 --> 02:02:12,000 AND I THINK THAT'S A GOOD THING. 3409 02:02:12,001 --> 02:02:13,000 I'M GLAD HE DID THAT. 3410 02:02:13,001 --> 02:02:15,000 I THINK WE DEFINITELY NEED TO DO 3411 02:02:15,001 --> 02:02:16,000 IT. 3412 02:02:16,001 --> 02:02:19,000 WE NEED TO GIVE LOANS AND GRANTS 3413 02:02:19,001 --> 02:02:20,000 TO DOCTORS AND HOSPITALS AND 3414 02:02:20,001 --> 02:02:22,000 ENCOURAGE THEM. 3415 02:02:22,001 --> 02:02:25,000 BUT EVERY SYSTEM HAS TO BE 3416 02:02:25,001 --> 02:02:27,000 CERTIFIED BECAUSE THE FEDERAL 3417 02:02:27,001 --> 02:02:29,000 GOVERNMENT WITH MEDICARE AND 3418 02:02:29,001 --> 02:02:31,000 MEDICAID AND THE CHIP PROGRAM 3419 02:02:31,001 --> 02:02:35,000 AND V.A. PROGRAM AND TRICARE AND 3420 02:02:35,001 --> 02:02:38,000 OUR MILITARY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM 3421 02:02:38,001 --> 02:02:41,000 ACCOUNTS FOR MAYBE 65%, I WOULD 3422 02:02:41,001 --> 02:02:43,000 SAY AT LEAST 60% OF EVERY HEALTH 3423 02:02:43,001 --> 02:02:45,000 CARE DOLLAR THAT'S SPENT EVERY 3424 02:02:45,001 --> 02:02:50,000 YEAR, MR. SPEAKER. 3425 02:02:50,001 --> 02:02:51,000 WE'RE TOTALING $2.3 TRILLION, 3426 02:02:51,001 --> 02:02:53,000 17% OF OUR GROSS DOMESTIC 3427 02:02:53,001 --> 02:02:56,000 PRODUCT IS HEALTH CARE DOLLARS. 3428 02:02:56,001 --> 02:02:57,000 SO WHEN PEOPLE SAY TO ME, WHY 3429 02:02:57,001 --> 02:03:00,000 SHOULD THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 3430 02:03:00,001 --> 02:03:03,000 HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH WHAT 3431 02:03:03,001 --> 02:03:07,000 VENDOR I BUY MY SOFTWARE AND 3432 02:03:07,001 --> 02:03:09,000 HARDWARE AND MAINTENANCE PROGRAM 3433 02:03:09,001 --> 02:03:13,000 FROM THAT'S VERY SPECIFIC TO MY 3434 02:03:13,001 --> 02:03:14,000 SPECIALTY, GENERAL SURGERY OR 3435 02:03:14,001 --> 02:03:18,000 PEDIATRICS OR PSYCHIATRY. 3436 02:03:18,001 --> 02:03:19,000 THE ANSWER IS, WELL, YOU DON'T 3437 02:03:19,001 --> 02:03:21,000 JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO 3438 02:03:21,001 --> 02:03:22,000 COMMUNICATE WITH THE OTHER 3439 02:03:22,001 --> 02:03:30,000 DOCTORS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR 3440 02:03:30,001 --> 02:03:33,000 THE TWO HOSPITALS IN THE COUNTY, 3441 02:03:33,001 --> 02:03:34,000 -- THE WORLD DOESN'T END AT THE 3442 02:03:34,001 --> 02:03:36,000 COUNTY LINE. 3443 02:03:36,001 --> 02:03:38,000 AND THAT'S TRUE IN REGARD TO 3444 02:03:38,001 --> 02:03:41,000 COUNTRIES AS WELL AS WE TALK 3445 02:03:41,001 --> 02:03:43,000 ABOUT OUR BORDERS NORTH AND 3446 02:03:43,001 --> 02:03:47,000 SOUTH AND YOU THINK ABOUT OVER 3447 02:03:47,001 --> 02:03:50,000 IN EUROPE AND YOU HAVE SO MANY 3448 02:03:50,001 --> 02:03:53,000 SMALL COUNTRIES AND THE BORDERS 3449 02:03:53,001 --> 02:03:54,000 ARE SO POUROUS AND PEOPLE MOVE, 3450 02:03:54,001 --> 02:03:57,000 TRAVEL AND VACATION. 3451 02:03:57,001 --> 02:03:58,000 AND YOU WANT THAT ACTITY AND I 3452 02:03:58,001 --> 02:03:59,000 THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. 3453 02:03:59,001 --> 02:04:01,000 WE, ON THIS SIDE OF THE AISLE, 3454 02:04:01,001 --> 02:04:04,000 WOULD SAY TO YOU, MR. SPEAKER, 3455 02:04:04,001 --> 02:04:05,000 AND YOUR DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES 3456 02:04:05,001 --> 02:04:07,000 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE 3457 02:04:07,001 --> 02:04:08,000 AND TO THE CURRENT 3458 02:04:08,001 --> 02:04:09,000 ADMINISTRATION, HEY, WE AGREE 3459 02:04:09,001 --> 02:04:12,000 WITH THAT. 3460 02:04:12,001 --> 02:04:15,000 WE AGREE LET'S SPEND SOME MONEY 3461 02:04:15,001 --> 02:04:17,000 AND WORK TOWARD A FULLY 3462 02:04:17,001 --> 02:04:18,000 INTEGRATED MEDICAL ELECTRIC TRON 3463 02:04:18,001 --> 02:04:21,000 SYSTEM. 3464 02:04:21,001 --> 02:04:25,000 THE RAND CORPORATION SAYS IT 3465 02:04:25,001 --> 02:04:28,000 WOULD SPEND $16 BILLION A YEAR. 3466 02:04:28,001 --> 02:04:29,000 I DON'T KNOW IF IT WOULD DO 3467 02:04:29,001 --> 02:04:30,000 THAT. 3468 02:04:30,001 --> 02:04:33,000 THAT WOULD BE QUITE CUT IN 3469 02:04:33,001 --> 02:04:36,000 THAT $2.3 TRILLION. 3470 02:04:36,001 --> 02:04:38,000 BUT EVEN IF IT'S $100 BILLION A 3471 02:04:38,001 --> 02:04:39,000 YEAR, THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT 3472 02:04:39,001 --> 02:04:45,000 SAVINGS. 3473 02:04:45,001 --> 02:04:46,000 MAY BE IMPORTANT MORE THAN THAT 3474 02:04:46,001 --> 02:04:59,000 IS IT SAVE LIVES. 3475 02:04:59,001 --> 02:05:00,000 PEOPLE ON PLAVIX ARE NOT GO TO 3476 02:05:00,001 --> 02:05:01,000 GO INADVERTELY BECAUSE THEY 3477 02:05:01,001 --> 02:05:02,000 SHOW UP WITH AN ASCHEMEIC ATTACK 3478 02:05:02,001 --> 02:05:05,000 AND MAYBE THEY'RE ON THE VERGE 3479 02:05:05,001 --> 02:05:06,000 OF HAVING A STROKE, MAYBE SOME 3480 02:05:06,001 --> 02:05:10,000 DOCTOR WHO DOESN'T KNOW THEY 3481 02:05:10,001 --> 02:05:12,000 HAVE BEEN ON PLAVIX THAT MAYBE 3482 02:05:12,001 --> 02:05:14,000 THEY NEED A BLOOD THINNER AND 3483 02:05:14,001 --> 02:05:16,000 WHILE PREVENTING THIS PERSON 3484 02:05:16,001 --> 02:05:18,000 FROM HAVING A STROKE, THEY CAUSE 3485 02:05:18,001 --> 02:05:21,000 THEM TO HAVE A HEMORRHAGE IN THE 3486 02:05:21,001 --> 02:05:23,000 BRAIN AND IT'S KIND OF LIKE A 3487 02:05:23,001 --> 02:05:24,000 STROKE, BUT IT'S DIFFERENT, BUT 3488 02:05:24,001 --> 02:05:27,000 THE RESULTS ARE THE SAME, 3489 02:05:27,001 --> 02:05:28,000 THEY'RE CATASTROPHIC. 3490 02:05:28,001 --> 02:05:30,000 AND THEY CAN LEAD TO INSTANT 3491 02:05:30,001 --> 02:05:31,000 DEATH. 3492 02:05:31,001 --> 02:05:34,000 SO THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO DO THIS 3493 02:05:34,001 --> 02:05:35,000 AND I THINK THAT IT WOULD SAVE 3494 02:05:35,001 --> 02:05:38,000 LIVES AND SAVE MONEY. 3495 02:05:38,001 --> 02:05:43,000 I THINK DOCTORS, IN FACT, MR. 3496 02:05:43,001 --> 02:05:44,000 SPEAKER, WOULD ULTIMATELY 3497 02:05:44,001 --> 02:05:46,000 REIMBURSED BETTER. 3498 02:05:46,001 --> 02:05:49,000 NOW THEY ARE VERY RELUCTANT, AT 3499 02:05:49,001 --> 02:05:52,000 LEAST 300,000 PHYSICIANS IN THIS 3500 02:05:52,001 --> 02:05:54,000 COUNTRY DON'T HAVE MH IN THE 3501 02:05:54,001 --> 02:05:55,000 WAY OF MEDICAL ELECTRONIC 3502 02:05:55,001 --> 02:05:58,000 RECORDS. 3503 02:05:58,001 --> 02:06:01,000 THEY MIGHT SEND THEIR BILL 3504 02:06:01,001 --> 02:06:02,000 ELECTRONICALLY AND PRESCRIBE 3505 02:06:02,001 --> 02:06:06,000 ELECTRONICALLY. 3506 02:06:06,001 --> 02:06:08,000 BUT THE WORDS OF THE PATIENT 3507 02:06:08,001 --> 02:06:10,000 WOULD BE SECURE, VERY SECURE AND 3508 02:06:10,001 --> 02:06:12,000 WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE OF THAT. 3509 02:06:12,001 --> 02:06:15,000 YOU DON'T GIVE THAT INFORMATION OUT TO ANYBODY THAT HAS NO 3510 02:06:15,001 --> 02:06:17,000 BUSINESS LOOKING AT IT. 3511 02:06:17,001 --> 02:06:19,000 OTHER PHYSICIANS, OF COURSE, AS 3512 02:06:19,001 --> 02:06:20,000 LONG AS THE PATIENT IS 3513 02:06:20,001 --> 02:06:22,000 COMFORTABLE WITH THAT. 3514 02:06:22,001 --> 02:06:24,000 BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON 3515 02:06:24,001 --> 02:06:26,000 IT. I THINK YOU'LL HAVE LESS 3516 02:06:26,001 --> 02:06:31,000 LAWSUITS, BECAUSE DOORS WOULD 3517 02:06:31,001 --> 02:06:34,000 BE LESS LIKELY TO MAKE AN ERROR 3518 02:06:34,001 --> 02:06:38,000 IN PRESCRIBING. 3519 02:06:38,001 --> 02:06:40,000 COSTS BECAUSE A DOCTOR WOULD NOT 3520 02:06:40,001 --> 02:06:44,000 AUTOMATICALLY ORDER AN M.R.I. OR 3521 02:06:44,001 --> 02:06:45,000 A CT SCAN FOR SOMEBODY WHO 3522 02:06:45,001 --> 02:06:47,000 PRESENTS TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM 3523 02:06:47,001 --> 02:06:50,000 WITH A HEADACHE IF HE OR SHE, 3524 02:06:50,001 --> 02:06:52,000 THE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER, KNEW 3525 02:06:52,001 --> 02:06:55,000 THAT A WEEK AGO BY LOOKING AT 3526 02:06:55,001 --> 02:06:57,000 THOSE ELECTRONIC RECORDS, THE 3527 02:06:57,001 --> 02:07:04,000 PATIENT JUST HAD THAT DONE. 3528 02:07:04,001 --> 02:07:09,000 THEY MIGHT NOT DO AN EOCARDIO 3529 02:07:09,001 --> 02:07:11,000 GRAM IF IT WAS DONE YESTERDAY IN 3530 02:07:11,001 --> 02:07:12,000 THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE. 3531 02:07:12,001 --> 02:07:16,000 AND LASTLY WIT 3532 02:07:16,001 --> 02:07:17,000 MEDICAL RECORDS, DOCTORS ARE 3533 02:07:17,001 --> 02:07:20,000 REIMBURSED UNDER MEDICARE BASED 3534 02:07:20,001 --> 02:07:22,000 ON THE AMOUNT OF TIME THEY SPEND 3535 02:07:22,001 --> 02:07:24,000 WITH A PATIENT. 3536 02:07:24,001 --> 02:07:25,000 NOW, IF IT'S A SURGICAL 3537 02:07:25,001 --> 02:07:28,000 PROCEDURE OR THE DELIVERY OF A 3538 02:07:28,001 --> 02:07:31,000 BABY, THESE THINGS ARE FAIRLY 3539 02:07:31,001 --> 02:07:33,000 EASY TO HAVE A STANDARDIZED 3540 02:07:33,001 --> 02:07:34,000 REIMBURSEMENT FOR THAT DEGREE OF 3541 02:07:34,001 --> 02:07:38,000 SERVICE. 3542 02:07:38,001 --> 02:07:41,000 BUT WHEN MOST OF THE VISIT IS 3543 02:07:41,001 --> 02:07:44,000 COGNITIVE, IT INVOLVES THE TIME 3544 02:07:44,001 --> 02:07:47,000 AND THINKING AND PHYSICAL EXAM 3545 02:07:47,001 --> 02:07:49,000 ON THE PART OF THE HEALTH CARE 3546 02:07:49,001 --> 02:07:54,000 PROVIDER, THEN THE CODE THAT YOU 3547 02:07:54,001 --> 02:07:55,000 SUBMIT IS WHAT DETERMINES THE 3548 02:07:55,001 --> 02:07:56,000 REIMBURSEMENT. 3549 02:07:56,001 --> 02:07:59,000 AND I WILL SUBT TO YOU, MR. 3550 02:07:59,001 --> 02:08:01,000 SPEAKER, AND TO MY COLLEAGUES, 3551 02:08:01,001 --> 02:08:06,000 THAT MOST DOCTORS ARE AFRAID 3552 02:08:06,001 --> 02:08:08,000 THATTHEY SUBMIT A CODE THAT IS 3553 02:08:08,001 --> 02:08:10,000 TOO HIGH AND THEN SOME INSPECTOR 3554 02:08:10,001 --> 02:08:11,000 GENERAL AND CERTAINLY MEDICARE 3555 02:08:11,001 --> 02:08:13,000 OR SOCIAL SECURITY HAS THE RIGHT 3556 02:08:13,001 --> 02:08:16,000 TO DO THAT TO COME INTO YOUR 3557 02:08:16,001 --> 02:08:17,000 OFFICE IF YOU'RE SEEING MEDICARE 3558 02:08:17,001 --> 02:08:18,000 PATIENTS, AND LOOK AT YOUR 3559 02:08:18,001 --> 02:08:22,000 CHARTS. 3560 02:08:22,001 --> 02:08:24,000 IF YOU ARE OVERCODING, GAMING 3561 02:08:24,001 --> 02:08:26,000 THE SYSTEM, THEN NOT ONLY WOULD 3562 02:08:26,001 --> 02:08:28,000 YOU HAVE TO GIVE THE MONEY BACK 3563 02:08:28,001 --> 02:08:29,000 AND YOU MAY GET KICKED OUT OF A 3564 02:08:29,001 --> 02:08:31,000 MEDICARE PROGRAM, BUT YOU COULD 3565 02:08:31,001 --> 02:08:33,000 GO TO JAIL. 3566 02:08:33,001 --> 02:08:36,000 YOU COULD GO TO JAIL. 3567 02:08:36,001 --> 02:08:38,000 DOCTORS HAVE A TENDENS SI TO 3568 02:08:38,001 --> 02:08:40,000 DE LOWER THAN HIGHER. 3569 02:08:40,001 --> 02:08:42,000 WITH ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS, 3570 02:08:42,001 --> 02:08:43,000 IT'S ALL DONE FOR YOU. 3571 02:08:43,001 --> 02:08:47,000 THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT HOW 3572 02:08:47,001 --> 02:08:48,000 THE PATI 3573 02:08:48,001 --> 02:08:52,000 ABOUT, WHAT TESTS YOU ORDERED 3574 02:08:52,001 --> 02:08:54,000 AND THEN IT LIKE A SIGN THAT 3575 02:08:54,001 --> 02:08:56,000 POPS UP THERE AND SAYS, THIS IS 3576 02:08:56,001 --> 02:08:57,000 THE EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT 3577 02:08:57,001 --> 02:08:59,000 CODE. 3578 02:08:59,001 --> 02:09:01,000 AND I THINK ULTIMATELY THE 3579 02:09:01,001 --> 02:09:02,000 DOCTORS WOULD BE REIMBURSED MORE 3580 02:09:02,001 --> 02:09:05,000 FAIRLY. 3581 02:09:05,001 --> 02:09:06,000 I DIDN'T WANT TO SPEND TOO MUCH 3582 02:09:06,001 --> 02:09:08,000 TIME ON MEDICAL ELECTRONIC 3583 02:09:08,001 --> 02:09:10,000 RECORDS, BUT I TELL YOU, MR. 3584 02:09:10,001 --> 02:09:13,000 SPEAKER, IT IS IMPORTANT TO TALK 3585 02:09:13,001 --> 02:09:15,000 ABOUT THAT AND TO UNDERSTAND 3586 02:09:15,001 --> 02:09:16,000 IT'S IMPORTANT AND WHYE SHOULD 3587 02:09:16,001 --> 02:09:18,000 ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE COME 3588 02:09:18,001 --> 02:09:19,000 TOGETHER ON THIS ONE. 3589 02:09:19,001 --> 02:09:22,000 IF WE CAN'T COME TOGETHER ON 3590 02:09:22,001 --> 02:09:23,000 ANYTHING ELSE, WE OUGHT TO COME 3591 02:09:23,001 --> 02:09:25,000 TOGETHER ON THIS ONE. 3592 02:09:25,001 --> 02:09:28,000 I SEE THAT I HAVE BEEN JOINED BY 3593 02:09:28,001 --> 02:09:31,000 ONE OF MY CLASSMATES AND I 3594 02:09:31,001 --> 02:09:33,000 ALWAYS LIKE TO SEE HIM ON THE 3595 02:09:33,001 --> 02:09:34,000 HOUSE FLOOR. 3596 02:09:34,001 --> 02:09:36,000 I SEE HIM EVERY DAY ON THE HOUSE 3597 02:09:36,001 --> 02:09:38,000 FLOOR, BUT TO HEAR HIM SPEAK ON 3598 02:09:38,001 --> 02:09:42,000 THE HOUSE FLOOR AND YOU WILL, 3599 02:09:42,001 --> 02:09:44,000 TOO, MR. SPEAKER, AS I PRESENT 3600 02:09:44,001 --> 02:09:46,000 TO YOU THE GENTLEMAN FROM UTAH, 3601 02:09:46,001 --> 02:09:47,000 MR. BISHOP. 3602 02:09:47,001 --> 02:09:50,000 I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE'S GOING TO 3603 02:09:50,001 --> 02:09:52,000 TALK ABOUT, BUT WHEN HE TALKS, 3604 02:09:52,001 --> 02:09:54,000 IT'S WORTH LISTENING. 3605 02:09:54,001 --> 02:09:56,000 AND I YIELD TO MY FRIEND FROM 3606 02:09:56,001 --> 02:09:57,000 UTAH. 3607 02:09:57,001 --> 02:09:58,000 MR. BISHOP: CONGRESSMAN GINGREY, 3608 02:09:58,001 --> 02:10:00,000 I APPRECIATE THAT FLUKES AND 3609 02:10:00,001 --> 02:10:03,000 THERE'S NO WAY I COULD LIVE UP 3610 02:10:03,001 --> 02:10:07,000 TO THAT BUT I DID WANT TO COME 3611 02:10:07,001 --> 02:10:09,000 DOWN HERE AND TALK ABOUT NOT 3612 02:10:09,001 --> 02:10:10,000 HEALTH CARE SPECIFICALLY BUT 3613 02:10:10,001 --> 02:10:13,000 THINGS WE ARE DOING WITH ENERGY. 3614 02:10:13,001 --> 02:10:14,000 AND I REALIZE THERE IS SOMEWHAT 3615 02:10:14,001 --> 02:10:17,000 A CONNECTION BECAUSE WHAT DR. 3616 02:10:17,001 --> 02:10:18,000 GINGREY WAS TALKING ABOUT IS A 3617 02:10:18,001 --> 02:10:21,000 VISION OF ANOTHER APPROACH TO 3618 02:10:21,001 --> 02:10:23,000 TRY AND SOLVE THE ENERGY CRISIS. 3619 02:10:23,001 --> 02:10:25,000 WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, AS 3620 02:10:25,001 --> 02:10:26,000 REPUICANS, IS TRYING TO GIVE 3621 02:10:26,001 --> 02:10:28,000 OPTIONS TO INDIVIDUALS AND 3622 02:10:28,001 --> 02:10:31,000 CHOICES TO INDIVIDUALS. 3623 02:10:31,001 --> 02:10:32,000 AND WHEN IT COMES TO ENERGY, IT 3624 02:10:32,001 --> 02:10:35,000 IS THE SAME KIND OF CONCEPT. 3625 02:10:35,001 --> 02:10:39,000 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A VISION 3626 02:10:39,001 --> 02:10:40,000 FOR AMERICA AND A ROAD OR OPTION 3627 02:10:40,001 --> 02:10:42,000 THAT CAN BE TAKEN AND IT'S NOT 3628 02:10:42,001 --> 02:10:43,000 JUST SIMPLY ONE. 3629 02:10:43,001 --> 02:10:46,000 I APPRECIATE THE CONCEPT OF 3630 02:10:46,001 --> 02:10:47,000 HEALTH CARE AND WHEN I LEAVE, I 3631 02:10:47,001 --> 02:10:50,000 EXPECT DR. GINGREY WILL COME 3632 02:10:50,001 --> 02:10:52,000 BACK AGAIN TO THAT AREA AND SHOW 3633 02:10:52,001 --> 02:10:54,000 THAT THESE ARE ALL THE CONCEPTS 3634 02:10:54,001 --> 02:10:56,000 THAT HAVE TO BE IN THERE. 3635 02:10:56,001 --> 02:10:57,000 I WANT TO TAKE JUST A MOMENT IF 3636 02:10:57,001 --> 02:10:59,000 I COULD, BECAUSE TODAY AT THE 3637 02:10:59,001 --> 02:11:01,000 WESTERN CAUCUS AS WELL AS THE 3638 02:11:01,001 --> 02:11:02,000 REPUBLICAN STUDY COMMITTEE, DID 3639 02:11:02,001 --> 02:11:04,000 INTRODUCE A NEBILL THAT DEALS 3640 02:11:04,001 --> 02:11:05,000 WITH ENERGY. 3641 02:11:05,001 --> 02:11:08,000 AND IT IS ONCE AGAIN WITH THE 3642 02:11:08,001 --> 02:11:10,000 SAME PURPOSE OR OVERALL VISION 3643 02:11:10,001 --> 02:11:12,000 THAT DR. GINGREY WAS TALKING 3644 02:11:12,001 --> 02:11:14,000 ABOUT, BECAUSE WHAT OUR GOAL IS 3645 02:11:14,001 --> 02:11:17,000 TO SAY, THERE ARE TWO COMPETING 3646 02:11:17,001 --> 02:11:21,000 VISIONS OF WHERE AMERICA IS 3647 02:11:21,001 --> 02:11:24,000 READY TO GO, KIND OF LIKE THE 3648 02:11:24,001 --> 02:11:27,000 FROST POEM, TWO PATHS IN THE 3649 02:11:27,001 --> 02:11:28,000 WOODS DIFFICULT VERGING AND WE 3650 02:11:28,001 --> 02:11:30,000 HAVE TO CHOOSE WHICH WAY TO GO. 3651 02:11:30,001 --> 02:11:32,000 THE DEMOCRATS HAVE OFFERED A 3652 02:11:32,001 --> 02:11:33,000 PROPOSAL OF CAP AND TAX. 3653 02:11:33,001 --> 02:11:35,000 AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE COMING 3654 02:11:35,001 --> 02:11:38,000 UP WITH A DIFFERENT PROPOSAL OF 3655 02:11:38,001 --> 02:11:39,000 TRYING TO TAKE THE CAP OFF OUR 3656 02:11:39,001 --> 02:11:41,000 ENERGY DEVELOPMENT. 3657 02:11:41,001 --> 02:11:42,000 SO WE HAVE THE CHOICE OF WHICH 3658 02:11:42,001 --> 02:11:43,000 OF THESE TWO PATHS AMERICANS 3659 02:11:43,001 --> 02:11:44,000 WANT TO TAKE. 3660 02:11:44,001 --> 02:11:46,000 IF WE GO WITH WHAT THE DEMOCRATS 3661 02:11:46,001 --> 02:11:48,000 ARE ALREADY PROPOSING, THERE 3662 02:11:48,001 --> 02:11:49,000 WILL BE AN INCREASE IN THE 3663 02:11:49,001 --> 02:11:52,000 ENERGY COSTS OF EVERY INDIVIAL. 3664 02:11:52,001 --> 02:11:53,000 IT CAN BE AS HIGH AS $3,000, 3665 02:11:53,001 --> 02:11:55,000 WHICH IS A LEGITIMATE NUMBER, 3666 02:11:55,001 --> 02:11:56,000 BUT THE PROBLEM IS, IT IS ALSO 3667 02:11:56,001 --> 02:11:57,000 DISPROPORTIONATE. 3668 02:11:57,001 --> 02:11:59,000 THERE ARE SOME PARTS OF THE 3669 02:11:59,001 --> 02:12:00,000 COUNTRY THAT WILL HAVE A BIGGER 3670 02:12:00,001 --> 02:12:02,000 HIT THAN OTHERS. 3671 02:12:02,001 --> 02:12:03,000 AND IT IS WORSE ON THE POOR THAN 3672 02:12:03,001 --> 02:12:06,000 ANY OTHER SEGMENT. 3673 02:12:06,001 --> 02:12:07,000 IF YOU ARE RICH, THIS IS AN 3674 02:12:07,001 --> 02:12:09,000 INCONVENIENCE. 3675 02:12:09,001 --> 02:12:10,000 IF YOU'RE POOR, THERE IS A 3676 02:12:10,001 --> 02:12:12,000 DECISION WHETHER YOU CAN 3677 02:12:12,001 --> 02:12:13,000 CELEBRATE WITH HAMBURGER HELPER 3678 02:12:13,001 --> 02:12:15,000 OR NOT. 3679 02:12:15,001 --> 02:12:17,000 THE REPUBLICAN OPTION, THE 3680 02:12:17,001 --> 02:12:18,000 REPUBLICAN ROAD, IS TO TRY AND 3681 02:12:18,001 --> 02:12:21,000 INCREASE AND GROW OUR ENERGY 3682 02:12:21,001 --> 02:12:22,000 SUPPLY SO WE REDUCE THE COSTS, 3683 02:12:22,001 --> 02:12:24,000 BECAUSE THERE IS MORE AVAILABLE. 3684 02:12:24,001 --> 02:12:25,000 AND IT ALSO RECOGNIZES THAT 3685 02:12:25,001 --> 02:12:28,000 ENERGY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE 3686 02:12:28,001 --> 02:12:29,000 VECLE FOR THOSE IN THE LOWER 3687 02:12:29,001 --> 02:12:31,000 CLASSES IN POVERTY TO RAISE 3688 02:12:31,001 --> 02:12:32,000 THEMSELVES UP. 3689 02:12:32,001 --> 02:12:35,000 THEIR ABILITY TO INCREASE OUR 3690 02:12:35,001 --> 02:12:36,000 GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT AND OUR 3691 02:12:36,001 --> 02:12:38,000 WEALTH IS BASED ON THE CONCEPT 3692 02:12:38,001 --> 02:12:40,000 OF HAVING AFFORDABLE ENERGY. 3693 02:12:40,001 --> 02:12:42,000 THE DEMOCRATIC APPROACH WILL CUT 3694 02:12:42,001 --> 02:12:43,000 JOBS. 3695 02:12:43,001 --> 02:12:45,000 THE GREATEST ESTIMATE, AND MOST 3696 02:12:45,001 --> 02:12:46,000 CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE IS AT 3697 02:12:46,001 --> 02:12:48,000 LEAST THREE MILLION JOBS WILL BE 3698 02:12:48,001 --> 02:12:52,000 TAKEN. 3699 02:12:52,001 --> 02:12:55,000 THE REPUBLICAN ONE IS NOT TO 3700 02:12:55,001 --> 02:12:57,000 INCREASE TAXES BUT INCREASE THE 3701 02:12:57,001 --> 02:12:59,000 RIGHTS WE WILL GET FROM 3702 02:12:59,001 --> 02:13:01,000 INCREASING PRODUCTION AND PUT 3703 02:13:01,001 --> 02:13:03,000 THAT INTO A TRUST FUND TO ATTACK 3704 02:13:03,001 --> 02:13:05,000 THE DEFICITS THAT THIS COUNTRY 3705 02:13:05,001 --> 02:13:07,000 HAS AND TAKE THE CAP OFF OUR 3706 02:13:07,001 --> 02:13:08,000 PRODUCTION SO WE CAN SUCCEED AS 3707 02:13:08,001 --> 02:13:10,000 A COUNTRY. 3708 02:13:10,001 --> 02:13:11,000 THE DEMOCRATS WOULD HAVE US GO 3709 02:13:11,001 --> 02:13:13,000 DOWN THE APPROACH WHERE THERE IS 3710 02:13:13,001 --> 02:13:15,000 NO REAL REWARD FOR CONSERVATION, 3711 02:13:15,001 --> 02:13:17,000 ONLY MANDATES. 3712 02:13:17,001 --> 02:13:18,000 REPUBLIC OPTION THAT WILL BE 3713 02:13:18,001 --> 02:13:21,000 BEFORE THAT IS TO REWARD PEOPLE 3714 02:13:21,001 --> 02:13:22,000 FOR THEIR EFFORTS AT PERSONAL 3715 02:13:22,001 --> 02:13:23,000 CONSERVATION, WHICH IS WHAT WE 3716 02:13:23,001 --> 02:13:25,000 SHOULD BE DOING. 3717 02:13:25,001 --> 02:13:27,000 THE DEMOCRAT ROAD WOULD TAKE US 3718 02:13:27,001 --> 02:13:28,000 DOWN THE APPROACH WHICH 3719 02:13:28,001 --> 02:13:29,000 GOVERNMENT STARTS TELLING PEOPLE 3720 02:13:29,001 --> 02:13:31,000 HOW TO LIVE THEIR LIVES. 3721 02:13:31,001 --> 02:13:33,000 WE WILL HARKEN BACK TO THE ERA 3722 02:13:33,001 --> 02:13:36,000 OF JIMMY CARTER WHERE THE 3723 02:13:36,001 --> 02:13:37,000 GOVERNMENT TOLD U HOW FAST TO 3724 02:13:37,001 --> 02:13:40,000 DRIVE, HOW WARM YOUR HOUSE CAN 3725 02:13:40,001 --> 02:13:42,000 BE AND WHEN YOU CAN BUY 3726 02:13:42,001 --> 02:13:46,000 GASOLINE, UNLESS YOU WERE THE 3727 02:13:46,001 --> 02:13:47,000 FAMILY WHO HAD ONE ODD AND ONE 3728 02:13:47,001 --> 02:13:48,000 EVEN LICENSE PLATE. 3729 02:13:48,001 --> 02:13:49,000 THE REPUBLICAN APPROACH IS 3730 02:13:49,001 --> 02:13:51,000 DIFFERENT. 3731 02:13:51,001 --> 02:13:53,000 IT'S TRYING TO REWARD 3732 02:13:53,001 --> 02:13:56,000 INNOVATIONS, GIVING PRIZES FOR 3733 02:13:56,001 --> 02:13:59,000 INGENUITY. 3734 02:13:59,001 --> 02:14:02,000 THAT THERE IS WITHIN AMERICA THE 3735 02:14:02,001 --> 02:14:05,000 SPARK OF CREATIVITY, INGENUITY, 3736 02:14:05,001 --> 02:14:06,000 THE ABILITY TO COME UPITH NEW 3737 02:14:06,001 --> 02:14:07,000 SOLUTIONS. 3738 02:14:07,001 --> 02:14:09,000 WE DON'T NEED THE GOVERNMENT TO 3739 02:14:09,001 --> 02:14:11,000 PICK WINNERS AND LOSERS AND TELL 3740 02:14:11,001 --> 02:14:12,000 US HOW WE SHOULD LIVE. 3741 02:14:12,001 --> 02:14:14,000 OPEN UP THE OPTIONS FOR 3742 02:14:14,001 --> 02:14:16,000 INDIVIDUALS AND REWARD THEM FOR 3743 02:14:16,001 --> 02:14:18,000 TAKING THE RISKS FOR COMING UP 3744 02:14:18,001 --> 02:14:20,000 WITH OPTIONS AND WE CAN CREATE A 3745 02:14:20,001 --> 02:14:21,000 BETTER WORLD. 3746 02:14:21,001 --> 02:14:23,000 THERE ARE NEW IDEAS OUT THERE, 3747 02:14:23,001 --> 02:14:27,000 NEW IDEAS THAT GIVE INCENTIVES 3748 02:14:27,001 --> 02:14:29,000 FROM SOLAR TO NEW ALGAE 3749 02:14:29,001 --> 02:14:30,000 PRODUCTIONS AND OLD IDEAS THAT 3750 02:14:30,001 --> 02:14:32,000 HAVE BEEN AROUND, WHICH HAVE 3751 02:14:32,001 --> 02:14:34,000 NEVER BEEN DONE AND THERE ARE 3752 02:14:34,001 --> 02:14:35,000 GOING TO BE NEW IDEAS UNTIL WE 3753 02:14:35,001 --> 02:14:37,000 ACTUALLY DO AND THERE IS NO TIME 3754 02:14:37,001 --> 02:14:39,000 TO DO IT THAN NOW. 3755 02:14:39,001 --> 02:14:42,000 THE DEMOCRATIC APPROACH IS, WE 3756 02:14:42,001 --> 02:14:43,000 CAN'T DO IT, SO WHY TRY. 3757 02:14:43,001 --> 02:14:45,000 REPUBLICAN OPTION IS SAYING, 3758 02:14:45,001 --> 02:14:46,000 THERE IS LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITY 3759 02:14:46,001 --> 02:14:47,000 IN THIS COUNTRY. 3760 02:14:47,001 --> 02:14:48,000 WE SHOULD DO IT AND WE SHOULD 3761 02:14:48,001 --> 02:14:52,000 SIMPLY DO IT NOW. 3762 02:14:52,001 --> 02:14:53,000 KIND OF LIKE "THE TALE OF TWO 3763 02:14:53,001 --> 02:14:54,000 CITIES," ONE CITY WITH THE 3764 02:14:54,001 --> 02:14:57,000 LIGHTS ARE OFF, THE REPUBLICAN 3765 02:14:57,001 --> 02:14:58,000 CITY WHERE THE LIGHTS CAN BE 3766 02:14:58,001 --> 02:15:00,000 TURNED ON. 3767 02:15:00,001 --> 02:15:02,000 A BETTER ONE IS, IF YOU REMBER 3768 02:15:02,001 --> 02:15:04,000 THE SEQUEL TO "BACK TO THE 3769 02:15:04,001 --> 02:15:05,000 FUTURE," WHERE THERE WITH YOU 3770 02:15:05,001 --> 02:15:07,000 TWO OPTIONS WHERE CIVILIZATIONS 3771 02:15:07,001 --> 02:15:08,000 COULD DEVELOP. 3772 02:15:08,001 --> 02:15:11,000 THE REPUBLICAN WANTS TO TAKE YOU 3773 02:15:11,001 --> 02:15:14,000 DOWN WHERE THE MCFLY FAMILY IS 3774 02:15:14,001 --> 02:15:18,000 HAPPY AND DEMOCRATS OPTION IS 3775 02:15:18,001 --> 02:15:19,000 WHERE ABYSS IS RULING THE WORLD. 3776 02:15:19,001 --> 02:15:22,000 WE HAVE A CHOICE. 3777 02:15:22,001 --> 02:15:24,000 THE BILL IS BASICALLY ABOUT ALL 3778 02:15:24,001 --> 02:15:26,000 THE ENERGY THAT WE CAN CREATE 3779 02:15:26,001 --> 02:15:29,000 AND IT SAYS AT THERE IS IN 3780 02:15:29,001 --> 02:15:30,000 THIS COUNTRY A BETTER DREAM AND 3781 02:15:30,001 --> 02:15:31,000 A BETTER VISION OF WHAT THE 3782 02:15:31,001 --> 02:15:34,000 FUTURE CAN BE. 3783 02:15:34,001 --> 02:15:37,000 AND THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO TAKE 3784 02:15:37,001 --> 02:15:40,000 US DOWN A BETTER ROAD FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE. 3785 02:15:40,001 --> 02:15:42,000 BY CREATING A BILL THAT ONCE 3786 02:15:42,001 --> 02:15:44,000 AGAIN DOES THREE THINGS. 3787 02:15:44,001 --> 02:15:46,000 IT REWARDS AMERICANS FOR EFFORTS 3788 02:15:46,001 --> 02:15:47,000 OF CONSERVATION. 3789 02:15:47,001 --> 02:15:49,000 THAT'S SOMETHING NO ONE -- WE 3790 02:15:49,001 --> 02:15:50,000 ARE TALKING ABOUT A LOT OF 3791 02:15:50,001 --> 02:15:53,000 MANDATES, BUT NOT ALLOWING 3792 02:15:53,001 --> 02:15:54,000 AMERICANS TO VOLUNTARILY 3793 02:15:54,001 --> 02:15:57,000 CONSERVE AND BE REWARDED FOR IT. 3794 02:15:57,001 --> 02:15:59,000 AND EVERY GALLON WE CAN CONSERVE 3795 02:15:59,001 --> 02:16:01,000 IT'S A GALLON WE DON'T HAVE TO 3796 02:16:01,001 --> 02:16:03,000 IMPORT FROM A COUNTRY THAT DOESN'T LIKE US. 3797 02:16:03,001 --> 02:16:04,000 TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF 3798 02:16:04,001 --> 02:16:07,000 PRODUCTION WE HAVE SO THERE IS 3799 02:16:07,001 --> 02:16:08,000 MORE ENERGY, IT IS MORE 3800 02:16:08,001 --> 02:16:10,000 AFFORDABLE, IT IS MORE USABLE 3801 02:16:10,001 --> 02:16:13,000 AND MORE HELPFUL. 3802 02:16:13,001 --> 02:16:15,000 AND THAT CAN BE THE TYPE OF 3803 02:16:15,001 --> 02:16:18,000 THING THAT THOSE IN THE LOWER 3804 02:16:18,001 --> 02:16:20,000 CLASSES CAN RISE ABOVE THEIR 3805 02:16:20,001 --> 02:16:21,000 SITUATIONS. 3806 02:16:21,001 --> 02:16:23,000 AND THIRD, REWARD AMERICANS FOR 3807 02:16:23,001 --> 02:16:25,000 INNOVATION. 3808 02:16:25,001 --> 02:16:26,000 PRIZES FOR INNOVATION HAVE 3809 02:16:26,001 --> 02:16:28,000 ALWAYS BEEN THE WAY THE WORLD 3810 02:16:28,001 --> 02:16:29,000 HAS MADE QUANTUM LEAPS FORWARD. 3811 02:16:29,001 --> 02:16:31,000 WHEN THE BRITISH WERE TRYING TO 3812 02:16:31,001 --> 02:16:33,000 BECOME THE MARITIME POWER, THEY 3813 02:16:33,001 --> 02:16:35,000 DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO MAP THE 3814 02:16:35,001 --> 02:16:36,000 WATERS. 3815 02:16:36,001 --> 02:16:38,000 THEY OFFERED A 20,000 POUND 3816 02:16:38,001 --> 02:16:40,000 REWARD FOR ANYONE WHO COULD 3817 02:16:40,001 --> 02:16:43,000 SOLVE THE PROBLEM AND A LONDON 3818 02:16:43,001 --> 02:16:44,000 CLOCK MAKER CAME UP WITH THE 3819 02:16:44,001 --> 02:16:47,000 CONCEPT WE STILL USE TODAY. 3820 02:16:47,001 --> 02:16:52,000 WHEN NAPOLEON NEEDED TO HAVE HIS 3821 02:16:52,001 --> 02:16:54,000 TROOPS FED, HE OFFERED A 14,000 3822 02:16:54,001 --> 02:16:56,000 FRANC REWARD FOR THE FIRST 3823 02:16:56,001 --> 02:16:58,000 PERSON TO SOLVE HIS PROBLEM AND 3824 02:16:58,001 --> 02:17:00,000 IT WAS VACUUM PACKING THAT WE 3825 02:17:00,001 --> 02:17:02,000 STILL USE TODAY. 3826 02:17:02,001 --> 02:17:04,000 WHEN LINDBERG FLEW ACROSS THE 3827 02:17:04,001 --> 02:17:06,000 ATLANTIC OCEAN H 3828 02:17:06,001 --> 02:17:07,000 TO A PRIZE OFFERED BY A 3829 02:17:07,001 --> 02:17:09,000 NEWSPAPER. 3830 02:17:09,001 --> 02:17:11,000 THE ABILITY OF AMERICANS TO 3831 02:17:11,001 --> 02:17:12,000 SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS AND COME UP 3832 02:17:12,001 --> 02:17:14,000 WITH CREATIVITY AND NEW IDEAS 3833 02:17:14,001 --> 02:17:15,000 AND NEW SOLUTIONS FAR AND BEYOND 3834 02:17:15,001 --> 02:17:20,000 WHAT WE' 3835 02:17:20,001 --> 02:17:24,000 DRIVEN BY WASHINGTON. 3836 02:17:24,001 --> 02:17:25,000 IT'S BEEN DRIVEN BY ARICANS TO 3837 02:17:25,001 --> 02:17:28,000 USE THEIR NATIVE ABILITIES, 3838 02:17:28,001 --> 02:17:29,000 EXPAND THE HORIZONS, BE CREATIVE 3839 02:17:29,001 --> 02:17:31,000 AND THEN BE REWARDED FOR THAT 3840 02:17:31,001 --> 02:17:35,000 KIND OF CREATIVITY. 3841 02:17:35,001 --> 02:17:37,000 . 3842 02:17:37,001 --> 02:17:40,000 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TWO 3843 02:17:40,001 --> 02:17:41,000 POTENTIAL ROADS, ONE THAT LEADS 3844 02:17:41,001 --> 02:17:43,000 TO MORE CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT 3845 02:17:43,001 --> 02:17:45,000 AND ANOTHER THAT LEADS TO 3846 02:17:45,001 --> 02:17:47,000 GREATER INNOVATION AND 3847 02:17:47,001 --> 02:17:49,000 ACCEPTANCE AND THE ABILITY FOR 3848 02:17:49,001 --> 02:17:51,000 AMERICANS TO DREAM NEW DREAMS AND CREATE NEW VISIONS. 3849 02:17:51,001 --> 02:17:53,000 DR. BEGINNING REE WAS TALKING 3850 02:17:53,001 --> 02:17:55,000 ABOUT THAT SAME CONCEPT -- DR. 3851 02:17:55,001 --> 02:17:57,000 GINGREY WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT 3852 02:17:57,001 --> 02:18:00,000 SAME CONCEPT IN THE FIELD OF 3853 02:18:00,001 --> 02:18:04,000 HEALTH CARE THAT WE NEED TO 3854 02:18:04,001 --> 02:18:06,000 TAKE A LOOK AT -- I THINK THE 3855 02:18:06,001 --> 02:18:08,000 WORD WOULD BE, TRYING TO COME 3856 02:18:08,001 --> 02:18:09,000 UP WITH A SECOND OPINION OF 3857 02:18:09,001 --> 02:18:10,000 WHERE WE SHOULD BE MOVING AND 3858 02:18:10,001 --> 02:18:12,000 WHERE WE SHOULD BE DEALING. 3859 02:18:12,001 --> 02:18:15,000 I THANK DR. GINGREY FOR 3860 02:18:15,001 --> 02:18:18,000 ALLOWING ME TO INTERVENE HERE. THERE'S A NEW ENERGY BILL 3861 02:18:18,001 --> 02:18:22,000 THAT'S BEEN PRODUCED. IT'S AN EMERGENCY BILL -- 3862 02:18:22,001 --> 02:18:23,000 POSITIVE. 3863 02:18:23,001 --> 02:18:25,000 IT'S ONE I WANT AMERICANS TO 3864 02:18:25,001 --> 02:18:27,000 DEAL WITH BECAUSE THERE IS A 3865 02:18:27,001 --> 02:18:29,000 BETTER PATH A BETTER FUTURE FOR 3866 02:18:29,001 --> 02:18:31,000 THIS COUNTRY, WE WANT THIS OUT 3867 02:18:31,001 --> 02:18:34,000 HERE FOR AN OPTION SO WE 3868 02:18:34,001 --> 02:18:36,000 UNDERSTAND IT. 3869 02:18:36,001 --> 02:18:38,000 I THINK THE GOOD REPRESENTATIVE 3870 02:18:38,001 --> 02:18:39,000 FOR GEORGIA WILL ADMIT THERE'S 3871 02:18:39,001 --> 02:18:42,000 GOT BE A BETTER PATH AND 3872 02:18:42,001 --> 02:18:43,000 BETTER OPTION, ONE THAT 3873 02:18:43,001 --> 02:18:44,000 ENNOBLES AND EMPOWERS 3874 02:18:44,001 --> 02:18:46,000 AMERICANS. 3875 02:18:46,001 --> 02:18:48,000 I THINK HE'S GOT SOME GREAT 3876 02:18:48,001 --> 02:18:50,000 IDEAS ON H TO SKIER THIS -- 3877 02:18:50,001 --> 02:18:51,000 STEER THIS COUNTRY DOWN THE 3878 02:18:51,001 --> 02:18:53,000 CORRECT PATH. 3879 02:18:53,001 --> 02:18:54,000 MR. GINGREY: RECLAIMING MY 3880 02:18:54,001 --> 02:18:56,000 TIME, AND IF THE GENTLEMAN FROM 3881 02:18:56,001 --> 02:18:58,000 UTAH CAN STAY WITH US AND 3882 02:18:58,001 --> 02:19:00,000 ENGAGE ME IN A COLLOQUY AS WE 3883 02:19:00,001 --> 02:19:03,000 CONTINUE THE TIME, TALKING 3884 02:19:03,001 --> 02:19:04,000 ABOUT THESE ISSUES, I REALLY, 3885 02:19:04,001 --> 02:19:06,000 REALLY APPRECIATE 3886 02:19:06,001 --> 02:19:09,000 REPRESENTATIVE BISHOP'S 3887 02:19:09,001 --> 02:19:12,000 EXPERTISE ON ENERGY AND OUR 3888 02:19:12,001 --> 02:19:15,000 SECOND OPINION, THE REPUBLICAN 3889 02:19:15,001 --> 02:19:18,000 ALTERNATIVE, A SECOND OPINION, 3890 02:19:18,001 --> 02:19:19,000 FORGIVE ME, MY COLLEAGUES IF I 3891 02:19:19,001 --> 02:19:22,000 UTILIZE MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY, 3892 02:19:22,001 --> 02:19:25,000 BUT IT SEEMS TO WORK FOR ME. 3893 02:19:25,001 --> 02:19:27,000 AND AS WE DEVELOPED A CAUCUS ON 3894 02:19:27,001 --> 02:19:31,000 OUR SIDE OF THE AISLE AS OUR 3895 02:19:31,001 --> 02:19:34,000 HEALTH CARE PROVIDER MEMBERSHIP 3896 02:19:34,001 --> 02:19:35,000 GROWS, I THINK WE HAVE 11 3897 02:19:35,001 --> 02:19:37,000 MEDICAL DOCTORS NOW ON THE 3898 02:19:37,001 --> 02:19:38,000 REPUBLICAN SIDE, I THINK THERE 3899 02:19:38,001 --> 02:19:40,000 ARE FOUR OR FIVE ON THE 3900 02:19:40,001 --> 02:19:42,000 DEMOCRATIC SIDE, AND WE HAVE 3901 02:19:42,001 --> 02:19:44,000 PSYCHOLOGISTS, WE HAVE 3902 02:19:44,001 --> 02:19:46,000 DENTISTS, WE HAVNURSES, WE 3903 02:19:46,001 --> 02:19:48,000 HAVE SOME MEDICAL EXPERTISE, 3904 02:19:48,001 --> 02:19:50,000 MR. SPEAKER, IN THIS CHAMBER. 3905 02:19:50,001 --> 02:19:54,000 AND WE WANT TO UTI 3906 02:19:54,001 --> 02:19:57,000 THIS G.O.P. DOCTORS' CAUCUS IS 3907 02:19:57,001 --> 02:19:58,000 WORKING VERY HARD TO DEVELOP A 3908 02:19:58,001 --> 02:20:01,000 SECOND OPINION ON HEALTH CARE 3909 02:20:01,001 --> 02:20:04,000 REFORM. 3910 02:20:04,001 --> 02:20:09,000 ROB BISHOP, JOHN SHIMKUS, WHO 3911 02:20:09,001 --> 02:20:12,000 LEADS THE COALITION ON A SECOND 3912 02:20:12,001 --> 02:20:16,000 OPINION FOR ENERGY REFORM, 3913 02:20:16,001 --> 02:20:20,000 MARKET DRIVEN, THESE ARE REPUBLICAN IDEAS. 3914 02:20:20,001 --> 02:20:21,000 I GET WEARY WHEN PEOPLE SUGGEST 3915 02:20:21,001 --> 02:20:23,000 THAT WE'RE JUST STANDING IN THE 3916 02:20:23,001 --> 02:20:24,000 WAY OF PROGRESS AND WHAT'S OUR 3917 02:20:24,001 --> 02:20:26,000 PLAN? 3918 02:20:26,001 --> 02:20:29,000 THESE ARE OUR PLANS. 3919 02:20:29,001 --> 02:20:30,000 UNFORTUNATELY, MR. SPEAKER, AS 3920 02:20:30,001 --> 02:20:34,000 I SAID AT THE OUTSET OF THE 3921 02:20:34,001 --> 02:20:35,000 HOUR WE DON'T GET MANY, IF ANY, 3922 02:20:35,001 --> 02:20:39,000 OPPORTUNITIES UNDER THE 3923 02:20:39,001 --> 02:20:41,000 LEADERSHIP, I'M SAD TO SAY, THE 3924 02:20:41,001 --> 02:20:45,000 FIRST FEMALE SPEAKER OF THIS 3925 02:20:45,001 --> 02:20:46,000 GREAT BODY, SERVING IN HER 3926 02:20:46,001 --> 02:20:49,000 SECOND CONGRESS IN THAT 3927 02:20:49,001 --> 02:20:54,000 CAPACITY, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE 3928 02:20:54,001 --> 02:20:55,000 THE MOST OPEN OPPORTUNITY TO 3929 02:20:55,001 --> 02:20:57,000 GET AWAY FROM THE REPUBLICANS 3930 02:20:57,001 --> 02:20:59,000 WHO ALL THEY WANTED TO DO WAS 3931 02:20:59,001 --> 02:21:00,000 SHUT THE PLACE DOWN. 3932 02:21:00,001 --> 02:21:02,000 WE WERE GOING TO OPEN THE DOORS 3933 02:21:02,001 --> 02:21:05,000 AND OPEN THE WINDOWS AND BRING 3934 02:21:05,001 --> 02:21:06,000 IN SOME SUNSHINE AND HAVE 3935 02:21:06,001 --> 02:21:07,000 TRANSPARENCY AND GIVE EVERYBODY 3936 02:21:07,001 --> 02:21:11,000 AN OPPORTUNITY TO REPRESENT 3937 02:21:11,001 --> 02:21:13,000 THEI 675,000 CONSTITUENTS, 3938 02:21:13,001 --> 02:21:14,000 WHETHER THEY'RE REPUBLICAN OR 3939 02:21:14,001 --> 02:21:15,000 DEMOCRAT, WHETHER YOU'RE IN THE 3940 02:21:15,001 --> 02:21:17,000 MINORITY OR THE MAJORITY. 3941 02:21:17,001 --> 02:21:20,000 SO WHAT'S HAPPENED? 3942 02:21:20,001 --> 02:21:21,000 I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. 3943 02:21:21,001 --> 02:21:24,000 I DON'T KNOW WHAT, MR. SPEAKER, 3944 02:21:24,001 --> 02:21:27,000 WHAT LED THE SPEAKER, YOU ARE 3945 02:21:27,001 --> 02:21:29,000 THE DESIGNATED SPEAKER BUT I 3946 02:21:29,001 --> 02:21:30,000 DON'T OW WHAT LED THE SPEAKER 3947 02:21:30,001 --> 02:21:32,000 TO CHANGE HER MIND BUT I FOR 3948 02:21:32,001 --> 02:21:35,000 ONE AM SADDENED BY IT. 3949 02:21:35,001 --> 02:21:37,000 SO WE HAVE TO CONVINCE OUR 3950 02:21:37,001 --> 02:21:39,000 COLLEAGUES AND HOPEFULLY THE 3951 02:21:39,001 --> 02:21:40,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT WE DO HAVE 3952 02:21:40,001 --> 02:21:42,000 OPINIONS. 3953 02:21:42,001 --> 02:21:43,000 WE JUST DON'T GET TO EXPRESS 3954 02:21:43,001 --> 02:21:45,000 THEM. 3955 02:21:45,001 --> 02:21:46,000 WE'RE NOT THE PARTY OF NO. 3956 02:21:46,001 --> 02:21:47,000 WE'RE NOT THE PARTY OF NO ON 3957 02:21:47,001 --> 02:21:48,000 HEALTH CARE REFORM. 3958 02:21:48,001 --> 02:21:50,000 WE'RE NOT THE PARTY OF NO ON 3959 02:21:50,001 --> 02:21:54,000 HAVING A BETTER COMPREHENSIVE 3960 02:21:54,001 --> 02:21:56,000 ENERGY REFORM BILL. 3961 02:21:56,001 --> 02:21:58,000 AND I YIELD BACK TO MY 3962 02:21:58,001 --> 02:22:00,000 COLLEAGUE FROM UTAH. 3963 02:22:00,001 --> 02:22:02,000 MR. BISHOP: IF I COULD JUST 3964 02:22:02,001 --> 02:22:03,000 INTERRUPT FOR JUST A SECOND, I 3965 02:22:03,001 --> 02:22:06,000 DO HAVE TO LEAVE IN A MOMENT OR 3966 02:22:06,001 --> 02:22:07,000 TWO, BUT I THINK YOU WERE 3967 02:22:07,001 --> 02:22:09,000 TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS 3968 02:22:09,001 --> 02:22:10,000 VERY SIGNIFICANT. 3969 02:22:10,001 --> 02:22:13,000 THERE HAVE BEEN OVER 950 BILLS 3970 02:22:13,001 --> 02:22:15,000 INTRODUCED BY REPUBLICANS SO FAR THIS SESSION. 3971 02:22:15,001 --> 02:22:16,000 59 OF THEM HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO 3972 02:22:16,001 --> 02:22:18,000 BE DISCUSSED ON THE FLOOR, MOST 3973 02:22:18,001 --> 02:22:19,000 OF THEM SUSPENSIONS. 3974 02:22:19,001 --> 02:22:21,000 IT IS NOT THAT WE ARE WANTING 3975 02:22:21,001 --> 02:22:22,000 FOR IDEAS. 3976 02:22:22,001 --> 02:22:24,000 IT'S WE'RE WANTING FOR A 3977 02:22:24,001 --> 02:22:25,000 VEHICLE IN WHICH THEY CAN BE 3978 02:22:25,001 --> 02:22:27,000 DEBATED AND DISCUSSED AND 3979 02:22:27,001 --> 02:22:28,000 PRESENTED TO THE AMERICAN 3980 02:22:28,001 --> 02:22:30,000 PEOPLE. I HAVE ONE OTHER ANALOGY. 3981 02:22:30,001 --> 02:22:32,000 I'M -- I'VE GOT GRAYER HAIR 3982 02:22:32,001 --> 02:22:34,000 THAN YOU DO, I'M OLDER. 3983 02:22:34,001 --> 02:22:35,000 BUT WHEN WE WERE GROWING UP, 3984 02:22:35,001 --> 02:22:37,000 REMEMBER THOSE OLD RECORDS YOU 3985 02:22:37,001 --> 02:22:38,000 HAD TO BUY? 3986 02:22:38,001 --> 02:22:40,000 IF I WANTED A SONG, I HAD TO 3987 02:22:40,001 --> 02:22:42,000 BUY THE ENTIRE ALBUM OR THE 3988 02:22:42,001 --> 02:22:45,000 ENTIRE EIGHT TRACK, WON'T EVEN 3989 02:22:45,001 --> 02:22:47,000 GO HOW FAR BACK THAT HAS TO BE. 3990 02:22:47,001 --> 02:22:49,000 MY KIDS, THOUGH HAVE THESE 3991 02:22:49,001 --> 02:22:51,000 LITTLE IPODS WHICH I STILL 3992 02:22:51,001 --> 02:22:52,000 DON'T KNOW HOW TO WORK, BUT IF 3993 02:22:52,001 --> 02:22:53,000 THEY WANT A SONG, THEY DON'T 3994 02:22:53,001 --> 02:22:56,000 HAVE TO BUY THE ENTIRE ALBUM 3995 02:22:56,001 --> 02:22:59,000 THEY CAN LOAD DOWN THEIR SONG ON THEIR IPOD. 3996 02:22:59,001 --> 02:23:01,000 THEY GET TO PICK AND CHOOSE. 3997 02:23:01,001 --> 02:23:04,000 EVERY ASPECT OF AMERICAN LIFE 3998 02:23:04,001 --> 02:23:06,000 NOW WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN 3999 02:23:06,001 --> 02:23:08,000 AMERICANS -- GIVING AMERICANS 4000 02:23:08,001 --> 02:23:10,000 OPTIONS. THE BUSINESS WORLD GIVES 4001 02:23:10,001 --> 02:23:12,000 AMERICANS OPTIONS. 4002 02:23:12,001 --> 02:23:13,000 THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, THE 4003 02:23:13,001 --> 02:23:14,000 FRFT IS THE ONLY PLACE WHERE 4004 02:23:14,001 --> 02:23:15,000 WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT A ONE 4005 02:23:15,001 --> 02:23:17,000 SIZE FITS ALL MANDATE ON 4006 02:23:17,001 --> 02:23:18,000 PEOPLE. 4007 02:23:18,001 --> 02:23:21,000 WHAT WE NEED TO BE DOING IS 4008 02:23:21,001 --> 02:23:22,000 GIVING AMERICANS CHOICES AND 4009 02:23:22,001 --> 02:23:24,000 ALLOWING AMERICANS TO CHOOSE 4010 02:23:24,001 --> 02:23:26,000 FOR THEMSELVES HOW THEY WISH TO 4011 02:23:26,001 --> 02:23:28,000 LIVE THEIR LIVES. 4012 02:23:28,001 --> 02:23:29,000 THAT'S THE MESSAGE, THAT'S THE 4013 02:23:29,001 --> 02:23:31,000 REPUBLICAN OPTIOTHAT HAPPENS 4014 02:23:31,001 --> 02:23:32,000 TO BE OUT THERE. 4015 02:23:32,001 --> 02:23:33,000 THAT'S THE VISION WE ARE TRYING 4016 02:23:33,001 --> 02:23:35,000 TO PRESENT. 4017 02:23:35,001 --> 02:23:37,000 I APPRECIATE, ESPECIALLY AS I'M GOING TO HAVE TO LEAVE THE 4018 02:23:37,001 --> 02:23:38,000 GENTLEMAN FROM GEORGIA, 4019 02:23:38,001 --> 02:23:43,000 ESPECIALLY WITH HIS EXPERTISE 4020 02:23:43,001 --> 02:23:44,000 IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH CARE, HE 4021 02:23:44,001 --> 02:23:46,000 RECOGNIZES THIS IS THE SAME 4022 02:23:46,001 --> 02:23:47,000 SOLUTION, IS NOT TELLING 4023 02:23:47,001 --> 02:23:49,000 AMERICANS HOW TO LIVE, BUT 4024 02:23:49,001 --> 02:23:50,000 GIVING THEM OPTIONS AND 4025 02:23:50,001 --> 02:23:52,000 ALLOWING AMERICANS TO CHOOSE 4026 02:23:52,001 --> 02:23:53,000 THEIR OWN FUTURE. 4027 02:23:53,001 --> 02:23:55,000 THEY GET TO BUY THE SONG THEY 4028 02:23:55,001 --> 02:23:56,000 WANT AND PUT IT ON THEIR 4029 02:23:56,001 --> 02:23:57,000 PERSONAL IPOD. 4030 02:23:57,001 --> 02:23:59,000 I APPRECIATE HIM FOR ALLOWING 4031 02:23:59,001 --> 02:24:01,000 ME TO JOIN HIM HERE THIS 4032 02:24:01,001 --> 02:24:04,000 EVENING AS PART OF THIS HOUR 4033 02:24:04,001 --> 02:24:08,000 AND I APPRECIATE MADAM 4034 02:24:08,001 --> 02:24:12,000 SPEAKER'S CONSIDERATION AND 4035 02:24:12,001 --> 02:24:15,000 TOLERATION IN US TAKING THIS 4036 02:24:15,001 --> 02:24:16,000 VISION, ANOTHER ROAD, ANOTHER 4037 02:24:16,001 --> 02:24:17,000 OPTION FOR AMERICANS. 4038 02:24:17,001 --> 02:24:19,000 WITH THAT, I APPRECIATE THE 4039 02:24:19,001 --> 02:24:20,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME. 4040 02:24:20,001 --> 02:24:22,000 I RETURN BACK WHAT 4041 02:24:22,001 --> 02:24:23,000 HIM. 4042 02:24:23,001 --> 02:24:25,000 MR. GINGREY: MADAM SPEAKER, I 4043 02:24:25,001 --> 02:24:26,000 APPRECIATE VERY MUCH THE 4044 02:24:26,001 --> 02:24:28,000 GENTLEMAN FROM UTAH JOINING US 4045 02:24:28,001 --> 02:24:29,000 THIS EVENING. 4046 02:24:29,001 --> 02:24:31,000 IF HE IS GOING TO HAVE THE 4047 02:24:31,001 --> 02:24:32,000 OPPORTUNITY TO GET TO HIS 4048 02:24:32,001 --> 02:24:34,000 DISTRICT IN UTAH, IT'S NOT 4049 02:24:34,001 --> 02:24:36,000 EASY, EVERY WEEK, IT'S PRETTY 4050 02:24:36,001 --> 02:24:40,000 EASY FOR ME TO GO HOME, MADAM 4051 02:24:40,001 --> 02:24:42,000 SPEAKER ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 4052 02:24:42,001 --> 02:24:44,000 MARIETTA AND COBB COUNTY, IT 4053 02:24:44,001 --> 02:24:45,000 TAKES ABOUT AN HOUR AND 45 4054 02:24:45,001 --> 02:24:47,000 MINUTES. 4055 02:24:47,001 --> 02:24:49,000 BUT OUR MEMBERS WEST OF THE 4056 02:24:49,001 --> 02:24:50,000 MISSISSIPPI, I FEEL SORRY FOR THEM IN A WAY BECAUSE IT'S 4057 02:24:50,001 --> 02:24:52,000 TOUGH. 4058 02:24:52,001 --> 02:24:55,000 I WISH HIM GOD SPEED AND A SAFE 4059 02:24:55,001 --> 02:24:58,000 TRIP HOME. 4060 02:24:58,001 --> 02:24:59,000 WE ARE HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT 4061 02:24:59,001 --> 02:25:02,000 PEOPLE DO UNDERSTAND, AND I 4062 02:25:02,001 --> 02:25:07,000 THINK OUR MEMBERS DO I THINK 4063 02:25:07,001 --> 02:25:10,000 MEMBERS 4064 02:25:10,001 --> 02:25:11,000 AISLE DO. 4065 02:25:11,001 --> 02:25:14,000 WE'RE NOT ABOVE REPROACH ON THE 4066 02:25:14,001 --> 02:25:16,000 REPUBLICAN SIDE, WHEN WE WERE 4067 02:25:16,001 --> 02:25:18,000 IN LEADERSHIP AND CONTROLED 4068 02:25:18,001 --> 02:25:20,000 THIS BODY, MAYBE WE WERE 4069 02:25:20,001 --> 02:25:22,000 HEAVY-HANDED, MAYBE WE DIDN'T KEEP EVERYTHING OPEN AND 4070 02:25:22,001 --> 02:25:25,000 TRANSPARENT AND MAKE AMENDMENTS 4071 02:25:25,001 --> 02:25:27,000 IN ORDER FROM THE MINORITY, BUT 4072 02:25:27,001 --> 02:25:31,000 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU CAMPAIGN AND 4073 02:25:31,001 --> 02:25:33,000 SAY, AS WE'RE DOING NOW, 4074 02:25:33,001 --> 02:25:35,000 PLEASE, GIVE US ANOTHER CHANCE 4075 02:25:35,001 --> 02:25:37,000 AND YOU'LL SEE THAT WE'VE 4076 02:25:37,001 --> 02:25:39,000 LEARNED OUR LESSON. 4077 02:25:39,001 --> 02:25:41,000 THAT'S WHAT THE CURRENT 4078 02:25:41,001 --> 02:25:43,000 DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY SAID WHEN 4079 02:25:43,001 --> 02:25:44,000 THEY WERE CAMPAIGNING IN 2006. 4080 02:25:44,001 --> 02:25:46,000 YOU KNOW, GIVE US AN 4081 02:25:46,001 --> 02:25:47,000 OPPORTUNITY. 4082 02:25:47,001 --> 02:25:52,000 LET'S THROW THOSE BUMS OUT AND 4083 02:25:52,001 --> 02:25:53,000 WE'LL SHOW YOU, JOHN Q. PUBLIC, 4084 02:25:53,001 --> 02:25:56,000 WHAT WE CAN IN THE PEOPLE'S 4085 02:25:56,001 --> 02:26:00,000 HOUSE AND HOW MUCH BETTER IT WILL BE FOR EVERYBODY. 4086 02:26:00,001 --> 02:26:01,000 YES, I'M DISAPPOINTED THAT 4087 02:26:01,001 --> 02:26:03,000 MADAM SPEAKER, IT HASN'T TURNED 4088 02:26:03,001 --> 02:26:04,000 OUT THAT WAY. 4089 02:26:04,001 --> 02:26:06,000 BUT STILL WE DO HAVE AN 4090 02:26:06,001 --> 02:26:07,000 OPPORTUNITY AS REPRESENTATIVE 4091 02:26:07,001 --> 02:26:09,000 BISHOP AND I TAKE THIS HOUR AND 4092 02:26:09,001 --> 02:26:11,000 TALKBOUT THESE TWO HUGELY 4093 02:26:11,001 --> 02:26:12,000 IMPORTANT ISSUES, AND LET 4094 02:26:12,001 --> 02:26:15,000 PEOPLE KNOW THAT WE DO HAVE A 4095 02:26:15,001 --> 02:26:18,000 SECOND OPINION AND I STARTED 4096 02:26:18,001 --> 02:26:20,000 THE HOUR TALKING ABOUT THE 4097 02:26:20,001 --> 02:26:22,000 FISCAL -- I'M SORRY, THE 4098 02:26:22,001 --> 02:26:23,000 PHYSICAL HEALTH OF THE NATION. 4099 02:26:23,001 --> 02:26:25,000 WE TALKED ABOUT IT LAST NIGHT 4100 02:26:25,001 --> 02:26:28,000 ON THE SWINE FLU DISCUSSION. 4101 02:26:28,001 --> 02:26:29,000 AND THEN REPRESENTATIVE BISHOP 4102 02:26:29,001 --> 02:26:31,000 CAME, AS I YIELDED TIME TO HIM, 4103 02:26:31,001 --> 02:26:35,000 MADAM SPEAKER, AND HE TALKED 4104 02:26:35,001 --> 02:26:37,000 ABOUT THE FISCAL -- FISCAL -- 4105 02:26:37,001 --> 02:26:40,000 ECONOMIC HEALTH OF THE COUNTRY. 4106 02:26:40,001 --> 02:26:42,000 OUR COUNTRY CANNOT BE HEALTHY 4107 02:26:42,001 --> 02:26:44,000 WITHOUT BOTH FISCAL HEALTH AND 4108 02:26:44,001 --> 02:26:46,000 PHYSICAL HEALTH. 4109 02:26:46,001 --> 02:26:48,000 SO YES, THESE ARE HUGELY 4110 02:26:48,001 --> 02:26:49,000 IMPORTANT ISSUES AND DON'T 4111 02:26:49,001 --> 02:26:52,000 IGNORE THE BRAINPOWER ON THIS 4112 02:26:52,001 --> 02:26:56,000 SIDE OF THE AISLE JUST FOR 4113 02:26:56,001 --> 02:26:58,000 PURELY PARTISAN REASON ARES OR, 4114 02:26:58,001 --> 02:26:59,000 WELL, YOU DID IT TO US, WE'RE 4115 02:26:59,001 --> 02:27:01,000 GOING TO STICK IT TO YOU. 4116 02:27:01,001 --> 02:27:02,000 THAT'S NOT WHAT THE AMERICAN 4117 02:27:02,001 --> 02:27:04,000 PEOPLE NEED AT THE FEDERAL OR 4118 02:27:04,001 --> 02:27:06,000 STATE LEVEL. 4119 02:27:06,001 --> 02:27:07,000 I HOPE WE CAN GIVE THEM BETTER. 4120 02:27:07,001 --> 02:27:09,000 I THINK MOST OF MY COLLEAGUES 4121 02:27:09,001 --> 02:27:12,000 FEEL THE SAME WAY. 4122 02:27:12,001 --> 02:27:13,000 THIS ISSUE, AND I'LL STAY ON 4123 02:27:13,001 --> 02:27:17,000 THE ENERGY SIDE FOR A FEW 4124 02:27:17,001 --> 02:27:20,000 MINUTES, MADAM SPEAKER, THIS 4125 02:27:20,001 --> 02:27:21,000 ISSUE IN THE ENERGY BILL THAT'S 4126 02:27:21,001 --> 02:27:22,000 COMING THROUGH THE COMM 4127 02:27:22,001 --> 02:27:25,000 COMMITTEE WHICH I'M HONORED TO 4128 02:27:25,001 --> 02:27:27,000 SERVE ON UNDER CHAIRMAN WAXMAN 4129 02:27:27,001 --> 02:27:29,000 AND RANKING MEMBER BARTON, 4130 02:27:29,001 --> 02:27:32,000 ENERGY AND COMMERCE, THIS 4131 02:27:32,001 --> 02:27:36,000 ENERGY BILL THAT HAS THIS 4132 02:27:36,001 --> 02:27:40,000 STRONG EMPHASIS ON A CARBON TAX 4133 02:27:40,001 --> 02:27:42,000 OR CAP AND TRADE, YOU MIGHT 4134 02:27:42,001 --> 02:27:44,000 CALL IT, REPRESENTATIVE BISHOP 4135 02:27:44,001 --> 02:27:46,000 TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT THAT 4136 02:27:46,001 --> 02:27:50,000 ULTIMATELY WILL END UP BEING A 4137 02:27:50,001 --> 02:27:51,000 HIDDEN TAX, A HIDDEN TAX ON 4138 02:27:51,001 --> 02:27:53,000 MOSTLY MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS, 4139 02:27:53,001 --> 02:27:57,000 LOWER INCOME AMERICANS WOULD 4140 02:27:57,001 --> 02:27:59,000 BE, AS HE POINTED OUT, HIT HARD 4141 02:27:59,001 --> 02:28:00,000 . 4142 02:28:00,001 --> 02:28:02,000 FOR RICH PEOPLE, IT WOULD BE AN 4143 02:28:02,001 --> 02:28:03,000 INCONVENIENCE. 4144 02:28:03,001 --> 02:28:05,000 FOR PEOPLE WITH MARGINAL 4145 02:28:05,001 --> 02:28:06,000 INCOMES, IT WILL BE 4146 02:28:06,001 --> 02:28:07,000 DEVASTATING. 4147 02:28:07,001 --> 02:28:10,000 IT'S UP TO $3,000 A FAMILY 4148 02:28:10,001 --> 02:28:13,000 BECAUSE AS THESE PRODUCERS OF 4149 02:28:13,001 --> 02:28:15,000 ELECTRICITY ARE PENALIZED 4150 02:28:15,001 --> 02:28:17,000 BECAUSE THEY'RE PRODUCING TOO 4151 02:28:17,001 --> 02:28:21,000 MUCH CARBON OR RELEASING TOO 4152 02:28:21,001 --> 02:28:22,000 MUCH CARBON DIOXIDE INTO THE 4153 02:28:22,001 --> 02:28:24,000 ATMOSPHERE, THEN THEY'LL PASS 4154 02:28:24,001 --> 02:28:26,000 THOSE COSTS RIGHT ON TO THE 4155 02:28:26,001 --> 02:28:29,000 CONSUMER TO JOHN Q. PUBLIC. 4156 02:28:29,001 --> 02:28:32,000 LISTEN, MADAM SPEAKER, I WAS AT 4157 02:28:32,001 --> 02:28:34,000 A BREAKFAST THIS MORNING AND WE 4158 02:28:34,001 --> 02:28:36,000 WERE PRIVILEGED TO HAVE, I 4159 02:28:36,001 --> 02:28:40,000 GUESS THERE WERE MAYBE 25 HOUSE 4160 02:28:40,001 --> 02:28:43,000 MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE, BUT A 4161 02:28:43,001 --> 02:28:48,000 DOCTOR, A PH.D. DOCTOR, FROM 4162 02:28:48,001 --> 02:28:51,000 SPAIN, HIS NAME, GABRIELLE 4163 02:28:51,001 --> 02:28:53,000 CALZARRA, TALKED TO US, HE'S AN 4164 02:28:53,001 --> 02:28:56,000 ASSOCIATE PROFTSOR OF APPLIED 4165 02:28:56,001 --> 02:28:58,000 ECONOMICS AT THE KING JUAN 4166 02:28:58,001 --> 02:29:01,000 CARLOS UNIVERSITY IN MADRID HE 4167 02:29:01,001 --> 02:29:05,000 TALKED ABOUT HOW THIS CAP AND 4168 02:29:05,001 --> 02:29:07,000 TRADE, CAP AND TAX, 4169 02:29:07,001 --> 02:29:10,000 THE KYOTO PROTOCOL OF 1991 TO 4170 02:29:10,001 --> 02:29:11,000 THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE 4171 02:29:11,001 --> 02:29:15,000 LETTER, THAT'S WHAT SPAIN HAS 4172 02:29:15,001 --> 02:29:17,000 DONE. 4173 02:29:17,001 --> 02:29:20,000 THEIR CURRENT PRESIDENT WAS -- 4174 02:29:20,001 --> 02:29:24,000 IS DETERMINED TO -- FOR SPAIN 4175 02:29:24,001 --> 02:29:27,000 TO BE THE POSTER CHILD FOR 4176 02:29:27,001 --> 02:29:29,000 ABIDING BY THE KYOTO PROTOCOL. 4177 02:29:29,001 --> 02:29:34,000 AND THEY DO. 4178 02:29:34,001 --> 02:29:37,000 THIS PROFESSOR, IS PH.D. 4179 02:29:37,001 --> 02:29:38,000 DOCTOR, TOLD US IT'S AN 4180 02:29:38,001 --> 02:29:40,000 ECONOMIC DISASTER IN SPAIN. 4181 02:29:40,001 --> 02:29:43,000 THEY ARE LOSING JOBS, THAT 4182 02:29:43,001 --> 02:29:46,000 THESE COMPANIES THAT ARE 4183 02:29:46,001 --> 02:29:49,000 TO PRODUCE ELECTRICITY WITH ALTEATIVE SOURCES SUCH AS 4184 02:29:49,001 --> 02:29:53,000 WIND AND SOLAR AND GEOTHERMAL 4185 02:29:53,001 --> 02:29:55,000 AND -- THEY'RE LOSING MONEY, 4186 02:29:55,001 --> 02:29:59,000 MANY OF THEM ARE GOING OUT OF 4187 02:29:59,001 --> 02:30:03,000 BUSINESS AND ALSO, A LOT OF THE 4188 02:30:03,001 --> 02:30:05,000 FACTORIES IN SPAIN THAT PRODUCE 4189 02:30:05,001 --> 02:30:06,000 THINGS, BUT THEY CAN ONLY 4190 02:30:06,001 --> 02:30:09,000 PRODUCE THESE THINGS BY USING 4191 02:30:09,001 --> 02:30:12,000 ELECTRICITY TO KEEP THE LIGHTS 4192 02:30:12,001 --> 02:30:14,000 ON AND KEEP THE TURBINES OR THE 4193 02:30:14,001 --> 02:30:16,000 ROBOTICS RUNNING, THE MACHINES 4194 02:30:16,001 --> 02:30:17,000 RUN, THE WORKERS WORKING, 4195 02:30:17,001 --> 02:30:18,000 THEY'RE PACKING UP SHOP AND 4196 02:30:18,001 --> 02:30:20,000 GOING TO OTHER COUNTRIES IN 4197 02:30:20,001 --> 02:30:22,000 THIS GLOBAL ECONOMY. 4198 02:30:22,001 --> 02:30:23,000 HE ACTUALLY DESCRIBED, NOW 4199 02:30:23,001 --> 02:30:25,000 WE'VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT ALL 4200 02:30:25,001 --> 02:30:27,000 THESE GREEN JOBS THAT THIS IS 4201 02:30:27,001 --> 02:30:29,000 GOING TO CREATE. 4202 02:30:29,001 --> 02:30:31,000 WELL HE SAID IN SPAIN THEY CALL 4203 02:30:31,001 --> 02:30:33,000 THOSE JOBS SUBPRIME. 4204 02:30:33,001 --> 02:30:35,000 MADAM SPEAKER. 4205 02:30:35,001 --> 02:30:36,000 I REPEAT THEY CALL THOSE 4206 02:30:36,001 --> 02:30:38,000 SUBPRIME JOBS. 4207 02:30:38,001 --> 02:30:40,000 THEY'RE NOT GOING TO LAST VERY 4208 02:30:40,001 --> 02:30:43,000 LONG. 4209 02:30:43,001 --> 02:30:45,000 THEY'RE NOT LASTING VERY LONG. 4210 02:30:45,001 --> 02:30:48,000 WE'VE GOT A SITUATION WHERE 4211 02:30:48,001 --> 02:30:52,000 CHAIRMAN WAXMAN D CHAIRMAN 4212 02:30:52,001 --> 02:30:55,000 MARKEY WANT A BILL WHERE EVERY 4213 02:30:55,001 --> 02:30:58,000 PART OF THIS COUNTRY HAS TO 4214 02:30:58,001 --> 02:31:02,000 ABIDE BY THESE RENEWABLE 4215 02:31:02,001 --> 02:31:04,000 STANDARDS SO THAT 25% OF YOUR 4216 02:31:04,001 --> 02:31:09,000 ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION BY 4217 02:31:09,001 --> 02:31:12,000 THE YEAR 2025, THINK 25 BY 25. 4218 02:31:12,001 --> 02:31:13,000 25% HAS TO BE PRODUD BY 4219 02:31:13,001 --> 02:31:16,000 RENEWABLES. 4220 02:31:16,001 --> 02:31:18,000 WIND, SOLAR, GEOTHERMAL. 4221 02:31:18,001 --> 02:31:22,000 BUT GUESS WHAT? 4222 02:31:22,001 --> 02:31:23,000 IN MY BELOVED AREA OF THE 4223 02:31:23,001 --> 02:31:24,000 UNITED STATES, IN THE 4224 02:31:24,001 --> 02:31:27,000 SOUTHEAST, WE DON'T HAVE A 4225 02:31:27,001 --> 02:31:28,000 CONSTANT SOURCE OF WIND. 4226 02:31:28,001 --> 02:31:30,000 WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A CONSTANT 4227 02:31:30,001 --> 02:31:34,000 SOURCE OF SUN. 4228 02:31:34,001 --> 02:31:35,000 WE HAVE VERY LITTLE GEOTHERMAL. 4229 02:31:35,001 --> 02:31:39,000 BUT YOU OW WHAT WE DO HAVE? 4230 02:31:39,001 --> 02:31:41,000 WE HAVE LOTS OF COAL. 4231 02:31:41,001 --> 02:31:43,000 WE HAVE LOTS OF WATER. 4232 02:31:43,001 --> 02:31:45,000 WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE, 4233 02:31:45,001 --> 02:31:49,000 TO TURN THESE TURBANS AND 4234 02:31:49,001 --> 02:31:50,000 PRODUCE ELECTRICITY BY JUST 4235 02:31:50,001 --> 02:31:52,000 LETTING WATER FALL AND WE PUMP 4236 02:31:52,001 --> 02:31:54,000 IT BACK UPHILL AND LET IT FALL AGAIN. 4237 02:31:54,001 --> 02:31:56,000 IF THAT'S NOT RENEWABLE, I GUESS 4238 02:31:56,001 --> 02:31:58,000 SOME OF IT EVAPORATES, BUT SEEMS 4239 02:31:58,001 --> 02:32:02,000 PRETTY RENEWABLE TO ME. 4240 02:32:02,001 --> 02:32:04,000 WE'RE NOT ABLE TO COUNT NUCLEAR 4241 02:32:04,001 --> 02:32:05,000 POWER. 4242 02:32:05,001 --> 02:32:06,000 WE HAVEN'T HAD A NEW NUCLEAR 4243 02:32:06,001 --> 02:32:09,000 REACTOR GO ONLINE, MADAM 4244 02:32:09,001 --> 02:32:12,000 SPEAKER, SINCE 1976. 4245 02:32:12,001 --> 02:32:15,000 AND IT IS CLEAN, IT IS EFFICIENT 4246 02:32:15,001 --> 02:32:17,000 AND IT IS SAFE. 4247 02:32:17,001 --> 02:32:18,000 IT'S EXPENSIVE. 4248 02:32:18,001 --> 02:32:20,000 YES, IT'S EXPENSIVE. 4249 02:32:20,001 --> 02:32:23,000 BUT WHEN YOU HAVE THESE NATIONS, 4250 02:32:23,001 --> 02:32:25,000 THESE ROGUE NATIONS, I'LL CALL 4251 02:32:25,001 --> 02:32:27,000 THEM, OR NEAR-ROGUE NATIONS, 4252 02:32:27,001 --> 02:32:28,000 EVEN IF THEY'RE NOT ROGUE 4253 02:32:28,001 --> 02:32:32,000 NATIONS, THEY DON'T LIKE US VERY 4254 02:32:32,001 --> 02:32:35,000 MUCH, CHARGING US $140 A BARREL 4255 02:32:35,001 --> 02:32:37,000 FOR PETROLEUM AND STRANGLING US 4256 02:32:37,001 --> 02:32:40,000 WITH THE COST OF NATURAL GAS, 4257 02:32:40,001 --> 02:32:42,000 YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO BECOME 4258 02:32:42,001 --> 02:32:43,000 INDEPENDENT OF THAT. 4259 02:32:43,001 --> 02:32:45,000 BUT YOU CAN'T DO THAT IF YOU ARE 4260 02:32:45,001 --> 02:32:49,000 NOT GOING TO BE ALLOWED TO BURN 4261 02:32:49,001 --> 02:32:50,000 COAL AND IN THE UNITED STATES I 4262 02:32:50,001 --> 02:32:52,000 THINK WE HAD SOMETHING LIKE 4263 02:32:52,001 --> 02:32:55,000 240,000 TONS, ENOUGH COAL TO 4264 02:32:55,001 --> 02:32:58,000 LAST US 150 YEARS. 4265 02:32:58,001 --> 02:32:59,000 AND WHAT THESE FOLKS -- AND I 4266 02:32:59,001 --> 02:33:01,000 THINK IT'S MISGUIDED. 4267 02:33:01,001 --> 02:33:03,000 I KNOW THEY'RE SMART PEOPLE BUT 4268 02:33:03,001 --> 02:33:06,000 I THINK THEY'RE MISGUIDED. 4269 02:33:06,001 --> 02:33:10,000 TO SHUT ALL THAT DOWN JUST 4270 02:33:10,001 --> 02:33:13,000 BECAUSE THE GREEN PEACE FOLKS 4271 02:33:13,001 --> 02:33:15,000 AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS RUN AMOK, 4272 02:33:15,001 --> 02:33:17,000 JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS 4273 02:33:17,001 --> 02:33:19,000 GLOBAL ECONOMY AND HOW YOU LOSE 4274 02:33:19,001 --> 02:33:22,000 JOBS AND YOU HAVE COUNTRIES LIKE 4275 02:33:22,001 --> 02:33:23,000 CHINA AND INDIA WITH ALMOST 4276 02:33:23,001 --> 02:33:25,000 THREE BILLION PEOPLE, ALMOST 4277 02:33:25,001 --> 02:33:26,000 HALF THE WORLD'S POPULATION, 4278 02:33:26,001 --> 02:33:28,000 THEY CAN DO ANYTHING THEY WANT 4279 02:33:28,001 --> 02:33:30,000 TO. 4280 02:33:30,001 --> 02:33:32,000 AND THEY'RE BRINGING ALL THE 4281 02:33:32,001 --> 02:33:34,000 COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT ONCE A WEEK. 4282 02:33:34,001 --> 02:33:35,000 A NEW ONE EVERY WEEK. 4283 02:33:35,001 --> 02:33:37,000 AND YET WE'RE GOING TO DO WHAT 4284 02:33:37,001 --> 02:33:38,000 WE'RE DOING. 4285 02:33:38,001 --> 02:33:40,000 IT DOESN'T -- IT JUST DOESN'T 4286 02:33:40,001 --> 02:33:42,000 MAKE SENSE. 4287 02:33:42,001 --> 02:33:44,000 I HAVE TALKED TO THE COMMITTEE, 4288 02:33:44,001 --> 02:33:46,000 TO THE POWERS THAT BE, AND EXPLAINED, YOU KNOW, THE 4289 02:33:46,001 --> 02:33:48,000 SITUATION WE'VE GOT IN THE 4290 02:33:48,001 --> 02:33:49,000 SOUTHEAST. 4291 02:33:49,001 --> 02:33:51,000 AND SOMETIMES IT MAKES YOU 4292 02:33:51,001 --> 02:33:56,000 WONDER, MADAM SPEAKER, IF, YOU 4293 02:33:56,001 --> 02:33:58,000 KNOW, WHEN YOU USE THE WORD 4294 02:33:58,001 --> 02:34:01,000 BUT THAT WORD ALSO CAN BE 4295 02:34:01,001 --> 02:34:04,000 INTERPRETED AS A REAL SCHEME, 4296 02:34:04,001 --> 02:34:07,000 LIKE SOMEBODY'S SCHEMING. 4297 02:34:07,001 --> 02:34:09,000 YOU KNOW, LOTS OF JOBS CAME TO 4298 02:34:09,001 --> 02:34:10,000 MY PART OF THE UNITED STATES 4299 02:34:10,001 --> 02:34:14,000 ALMOST 100 YEARS AGO. 4300 02:34:14,001 --> 02:34:15,000 WE HAD TEXTILE PLANTS 4301 02:34:15,001 --> 02:34:17,000 EVERYWHERE. 4302 02:34:17,001 --> 02:34:26,000 WHERE WAS THE CORPORATE OFFICE 4303 02:34:26,001 --> 02:34:28,000 OF THOSE PLANS 4304 02:34:28,001 --> 02:34:29,000 NEW YORK CITY. 4305 02:34:29,001 --> 02:34:30,000 BUT THEY CAME SOUTH -- PLANTS? 4306 02:34:30,001 --> 02:34:31,000 NEW YORK CITY. 4307 02:34:31,001 --> 02:34:33,000 BUT THEY CAME SOUTH. 4308 02:34:33,001 --> 02:34:34,000 FOR ONE REASON. 4309 02:34:34,001 --> 02:34:35,000 EX INEXPENSIVE LABOR. 4310 02:34:35,001 --> 02:34:37,000 THEY COULD MAKE THEIR PRODUCTS 4311 02:34:37,001 --> 02:34:38,000 AND MAKE THE PROFIT AND PAY WELL 4312 02:34:38,001 --> 02:34:39,000 AND TIMES WERE GOOD. 4313 02:34:39,001 --> 02:34:40,000 MY DAD WAS BORN IN GRANITEVILLE, 4314 02:34:40,001 --> 02:34:41,000 SOUTH CAROLINA. 4315 02:34:41,001 --> 02:34:43,000 BUILT BY THE GRANITEVILLE 4316 02:34:43,001 --> 02:34:44,000 COMPANY. 4317 02:34:44,001 --> 02:34:45,000 A COMPANY FROM NEW YORK TRADED 4318 02:34:45,001 --> 02:34:47,000 ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. 4319 02:34:47,001 --> 02:34:48,000 AND THAT COMPANY BUILT 4320 02:34:48,001 --> 02:34:49,000 EVERYTHING IN TOWN AND EMPLOYED 4321 02:34:49,001 --> 02:34:50,000 EVERY WORKER IN TOUNL. 4322 02:34:50,001 --> 02:34:52,000 WELL, THOSE JOBS CAME FROM THE 4323 02:34:52,001 --> 02:34:53,000 -- TOWN. 4324 02:34:53,001 --> 02:34:54,000 WELL, THOSE JOBS CAME FROM THE 4325 02:34:54,001 --> 02:34:59,000 NORTHEAST. 4326 02:34:59,001 --> 02:35:03,000 NOW, IF YOU WE -- IF WE FOLLOW 4327 02:35:03,001 --> 02:35:06,000 THROUGH AND PENALIZE, THEN THESE 4328 02:35:06,001 --> 02:35:07,000 FACTORIES WILL SAY, WELL, WE'LL 4329 02:35:07,001 --> 02:35:09,000 JUST STAY UP NORTH WITH ALL 4330 02:35:09,001 --> 02:35:10,000 THESE EXPENSIVE UNION WORKERS 4331 02:35:10,001 --> 02:35:12,000 BECAUSE IF WE GO DOWN SOUTH 4332 02:35:12,001 --> 02:35:16,000 WE'LL GET CHEAPER LABOR, BUT 4333 02:35:16,001 --> 02:35:17,000 WE'LL HAVE TO PAY OUT THE WAZOO 4334 02:35:17,001 --> 02:35:19,000 FOR ELECTRICITY. 4335 02:35:19,001 --> 02:35:22,000 SAME THING WITH CALIFORNIA. 4336 02:35:22,001 --> 02:35:23,000 SO, I WOULD SAY TO ALL OF MY 4337 02:35:23,001 --> 02:35:24,000 COLLEAGUES AND EVERYBODY 4338 02:35:24,001 --> 02:35:26,000 LISTENING AND MEN AND WOMEN 4339 02:35:26,001 --> 02:35:27,000 ACROSS THIS COUNTRY, THEY ARE 4340 02:35:27,001 --> 02:35:30,000 CONNECTING THE DOTS. 4341 02:35:30,001 --> 02:35:33,000 THEY'RE FIGURING THIS THING OUT. 4342 02:35:33,001 --> 02:35:34,000 THEY'RE INDEED, IN MY OPINION, 4343 02:35:34,001 --> 02:35:36,000 MADAM SPEAKER, -- THERE INDEED, 4344 02:35:36,001 --> 02:35:37,000 IN MY OPINION, MADAM SPEAKER, IS 4345 02:35:37,001 --> 02:35:38,000 A SCHEME GOING ON HERE AND IT 4346 02:35:38,001 --> 02:35:39,000 MAKES NO SENSE. 4347 02:35:39,001 --> 02:35:41,000 IT MAKES NO SENSE AT ANY TIME, 4348 02:35:41,001 --> 02:35:44,000 ESPECIALLY AT A TIME OF SEVERE 4349 02:35:44,001 --> 02:35:48,000 ECONOMIC RECESSION. 4350 02:35:48,001 --> 02:35:50,000 POINT NOW OF HOPING AND PRAILING 4351 02:35:50,001 --> 02:35:51,000 THAT WE'LL COME OUT OF IT -- 4352 02:35:51,001 --> 02:35:53,000 PRAYING THAT WE'LL COME OUT OF 4353 02:35:53,001 --> 02:35:54,000 IT. 4354 02:35:54,001 --> 02:35:56,000 BAIL OUT THIS ONE, BAIL OUT THAT ONE. 4355 02:35:56,001 --> 02:35:58,000 STIMULATE THIS, STIMULATE THAT. 4356 02:35:58,001 --> 02:35:59,000 BUT WHEN WE GO BACK HOME, MR. 4357 02:35:59,001 --> 02:36:01,000 BISHOP TO UTAH, ME TO GEORGIA, 4358 02:36:01,001 --> 02:36:02,000 AND YOU START TALKING TO PEOPLE 4359 02:36:02,001 --> 02:36:04,000 AND THEY'RE ABOUT TO LOSE THEIR 4360 02:36:04,001 --> 02:36:06,000 HOME AND THE BANKS ARE ABOUT TO 4361 02:36:06,001 --> 02:36:07,000 CLOSE, SMALL COMMUNITY BANKS AND 4362 02:36:07,001 --> 02:36:08,000 THEY'RE SAYING, CONGRESSMAN 4363 02:36:08,001 --> 02:36:14,000 GINGREY, WHY COULDN'T YOU GET ME 4364 02:36:14,001 --> 02:36:16,000 HE ANY OF THAT TARP MONEY? 4365 02:36:16,001 --> 02:36:18,000 WE MADE LOANS TO BUILDERS 4366 02:36:18,001 --> 02:36:23,000 BECAUSE WE WERE LITERALLY FORCED 4367 02:36:23,001 --> 02:36:25,000 TO BY THE HOMEOWNERS 4368 02:36:25,001 --> 02:36:27,000 REINVESTMENT ACT OR WHAT FANNIE 4369 02:36:27,001 --> 02:36:28,000 AND FREDDIE FORCED US TO DO 4370 02:36:28,001 --> 02:36:30,000 BECAUSE WANTING MORE 4371 02:36:30,001 --> 02:36:32,000 DIVERSEFICATION IN HOME 4372 02:36:32,001 --> 02:36:34,000 OWNERSHIP, WE KNEW THAT YOU 4373 02:36:34,001 --> 02:36:37,000 DON'T LEND MONEY TO PEOPLE THAT 4374 02:36:37,001 --> 02:36:38,000 CAN'T VERIFY THAT THEY'VE GOT A 4375 02:36:38,001 --> 02:36:40,000 JOB OR WHAT THEIR INCOME IS AND 4376 02:36:40,001 --> 02:36:42,000 THEY HAVE NO DOWN PAYMENT AND 4377 02:36:42,001 --> 02:36:46,000 THEIR ANNUAL SALARY IS $50,000 4378 02:36:46,001 --> 02:36:50,000 AND THEY WANT TO GET A LOAN ON A 4379 02:36:50,001 --> 02:36:53,000 $600,000 HOUSE AND IT SHOULD BE 4380 02:36:53,001 --> 02:36:54,000 NO MORE THAN ONE TO THREE BUT WE 4381 02:36:54,001 --> 02:36:57,000 WERE LITERALLY FORCED TO MAKE 4382 02:36:57,001 --> 02:36:59,000 THESE LOANS AND NOW WE ARE BEING 4383 02:36:59,001 --> 02:37:01,000 TOO YOU UNDERSTAND -- WE ARE 4384 02:37:01,001 --> 02:37:02,000 ABOUT TO GO UNDER. 4385 02:37:02,001 --> 02:37:03,000 ALL THESE PEOPLE WHO INVESTED IN 4386 02:37:03,001 --> 02:37:05,000 THE BANK AND THE LOCAL 4387 02:37:05,001 --> 02:37:06,000 COMMUNITY, THEY'RE ABOUT TO LOSE 4388 02:37:06,001 --> 02:37:08,000 THEIR INVESTMENT. WHERE'S OUR HELP FROM THE 4389 02:37:08,001 --> 02:37:10,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? 4390 02:37:10,001 --> 02:37:11,000 NO, WE FORCED THE BILL BANKS TO 4391 02:37:11,001 --> 02:37:14,000 TAKE MONEY AND THEY WON'T EVEN 4392 02:37:14,001 --> 02:37:17,000 LET THEM GIVE THE MONEY BACK. 4393 02:37:17,001 --> 02:37:19,000 WELL, THAT'S WHAT I CALL 4394 02:37:19,001 --> 02:37:21,000 SOCIALIZATION. 4395 02:37:21,001 --> 02:37:22,000 SOCIALISM. 4396 02:37:22,001 --> 02:37:25,000 AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TIME 4397 02:37:25,001 --> 02:37:26,000 WE'VE GOT BUT I'M GOING TO MAYBE 4398 02:37:26,001 --> 02:37:27,000 UTILIZE A FEW MORE MINUTES, 4399 02:37:27,001 --> 02:37:30,000 MADAM SPEAKER, IF YOU NEED TO 4400 02:37:30,001 --> 02:37:31,000 GAVEL ME DOWN, YOU GO RIGHT 4401 02:37:31,001 --> 02:37:33,000 AHEAD, AND I'LL JUST SHUT UP 4402 02:37:33,001 --> 02:37:34,000 IMMEDIATELY, BUT I'M GOING TO 4403 02:37:34,001 --> 02:37:37,000 SWITCHBACK A LITTLE BIT TO THE 4404 02:37:37,001 --> 02:37:38,000 HEALTH CARE PART NOW -- SWITCH 4405 02:37:38,001 --> 02:37:40,000 BACK A LITTLE BIT TO THE HEALTH 4406 02:37:40,001 --> 02:37:41,000 CARE PART NOW. 4407 02:37:41,001 --> 02:37:42,000 I DON'T WANT TO SEE THAT 4408 02:37:42,001 --> 02:37:45,000 SOCIALIZED. 4409 02:37:45,001 --> 02:37:47,000 I DON'T THINK MEN AND WOMEN WANT THE GOVERNMENT -- 4410 02:37:47,001 --> 02:37:49,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4411 02:37:49,001 --> 02:37:50,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 4412 02:37:50,001 --> 02:37:51,000 MR. GINGREY: STAND IN BETWEEN 4413 02:37:51,001 --> 02:37:53,000 THE DOCTOR AND THE PATIENT. 4414 02:37:53,001 --> 02:37:55,000 AND SOUNDS LIKE THE GOOD SPEAKER 4415 02:37:55,001 --> 02:37:58,000 IS LETTING ME KNOW TH WE HAVE 4416 02:37:58,001 --> 02:38:00,000 THE MAGIC HOUR HAS EXPIRED -- 4417 02:38:00,001 --> 02:38:02,000 LET ME KNOW -- THAT THE MAGIC 4418 02:38:02,001 --> 02:38:04,000 HOUR HAS EXPIRED. 4419 02:38:04,001 --> 02:38:05,000 THANK YOU FOR YOUR INDULGENCE, 4420 02:38:05,001 --> 02:38:07,000 MY COLLEAGUES, AND WE'LL 4421 02:38:07,001 --> 02:38:09,000 CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT 4422 02:38:09,001 --> 02:38:11,000 REPUBLICANS' SECOND OPINION ON 4423 02:38:11,001 --> 02:38:12,000 MANY ISSUES AND I YIELD BACK. 4424 02:38:12,001 --> 02:38:14,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4425 02:38:14,001 --> 02:38:15,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 4426 02:38:15,001 --> 02:38:17,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 4427 02:38:17,001 --> 02:38:18,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 4428 02:38:18,001 --> 02:38:20,000 GENTLELADY FROM TEXAS RISE? 4429 02:38:20,001 --> 02:38:21,000 MS. J 4430 02:38:21,001 --> 02:38:23,000 CONSENT TO SPEAK OUT OF ORDER 4431 02:38:23,001 --> 02:38:24,000 FOR FIVE MINUTES. 4432 02:38:24,001 --> 02:38:30,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: NO 4433 02:38:30,001 --> 02:38:32,000 OBJECTION. 4434 02:38:32,001 --> 02:38:34,000 MS. JACKSON LEE: ALLOW ME TO THANK THE DISTINGUISHED 4435 02:38:34,001 --> 02:38:36,000 GENTLEMEN FOR HIS KIND -- 4436 02:38:36,001 --> 02:38:37,000 GENTLEMAN FOR HIS KINDNESS AND, 4437 02:38:37,001 --> 02:38:38,000 MADAM SPEAKER, THANK YOU S 4438 02:38:38,001 --> 02:38:39,000 MUCH. 4439 02:38:39,001 --> 02:38:41,000 I DID WANT TO LEAVE AN 4440 02:38:41,001 --> 02:38:45,000 TO MY DISTRICT WITHOUT 4441 02:38:45,001 --> 02:38:47,000 ACKNOWLEDGING HOW HUMBLED 4442 02:38:47,001 --> 02:38:49,000 AMERICA IS IN HONORING THE 4443 02:38:49,001 --> 02:38:52,000 NATION'S MOTHERS. 4444 02:38:52,001 --> 02:38:57,000 I BELIEVE IT WAS A GREAT IDEA TO 4445 02:38:57,001 --> 02:38:59,000 SET ASIDE A DAY TO HONOR OUR 4446 02:38:59,001 --> 02:39:00,000 MOTHERS AND TO HONOR OUR 4447 02:39:00,001 --> 02:39:04,000 FATHERS. 4448 02:39:04,001 --> 02:39:05,000 AND SO THIS WEEKEND IS A 4449 02:39:05,001 --> 02:39:06,000 NATIONALLY DECLARED DAY TO 4450 02:39:06,001 --> 02:39:10,000 CELEBRATE MOTHERHOOD. 4451 02:39:10,001 --> 02:39:15,000 AND I RISE TODAY TO BE ABLE TO 4452 02:39:15,001 --> 02:39:16,000 CELEBRATE THE MOTHERS ALL OVER 4453 02:39:16,001 --> 02:39:18,000 THIS NATION WHO LINK ARMS WITH 4454 02:39:18,001 --> 02:39:20,000 THOSE AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE 4455 02:39:20,001 --> 02:39:23,000 IN FACT SPECIAL. 4456 02:39:23,001 --> 02:39:24,000 FOR MOTHERS ARE IN FACT THE 4457 02:39:24,001 --> 02:39:25,000 NURTURERS AND CARE GIVERS THAT 4458 02:39:25,001 --> 02:39:28,000 PREPARE OUR NATION'S YOUNG FOR 4459 02:39:28,001 --> 02:39:29,000 THE CHALLENGES THAT LIFE MAY 4460 02:39:29,001 --> 02:39:31,000 HOLD. 4461 02:39:31,001 --> 02:39:32,000 THAT WORK MAY BE INSIDE OR 4462 02:39:32,001 --> 02:39:36,000 OUTSIDE OF THE HOME OR BOTH AND 4463 02:39:36,001 --> 02:39:37,000 THEIR KKSES -- CONTRIBUTIONS TO 4464 02:39:37,001 --> 02:39:39,000 THIS SOCIETY CAN NEVER BE FULLY 4465 02:39:39,001 --> 02:39:40,000 APPRECIATED OR VALUED. 4466 02:39:40,001 --> 02:39:42,000 JAMES DEFINITELY HIT THE NEEDLE 4467 02:39:42,001 --> 02:39:44,000 ON THE HEAD WHEN SHE SAID THE 4468 02:39:44,001 --> 02:39:46,000 PHRASE, WORKING MOTHER IS 4469 02:39:46,001 --> 02:39:47,000 REDUNDANT. 4470 02:39:47,001 --> 02:39:49,000 FOR OBVIOUSLY A MOM, A MOMMY, A 4471 02:39:49,001 --> 02:39:51,000 MOTHER, WORKS. 4472 02:39:51,001 --> 02:39:53,000 IN THIS DAY AND TI, WE FIND 4473 02:39:53,001 --> 02:39:55,000 THAT MOTHERS COME IN MANY SHAPES 4474 02:39:55,001 --> 02:39:57,000 AND SIZES. 4475 02:39:57,001 --> 02:39:58,000 TODAY OUR FIRST LADY SPOKE 4476 02:39:58,001 --> 02:40:00,000 ELOQUENTLY ABOUT THE CHALLENGES 4477 02:40:00,001 --> 02:40:03,000 OF BEING A WORKING MOTHER. BUT AS WE HAVE COME TO 4478 02:40:03,001 --> 02:40:04,000 UNDERSTAND, A MOM WORKS AT HOME, 4479 02:40:04,001 --> 02:40:08,000 SHE WORKS IN THE WORKPLACE, 4480 02:40:08,001 --> 02:40:10,000 SHE'S A VOLUNTEER, SHE DOES MANY 4481 02:40:10,001 --> 02:40:11,000 THINGS THAT CONSTITUTE WORK BUT 4482 02:40:11,001 --> 02:40:13,000 ARE HER DAILY DUTIES. 4483 02:40:13,001 --> 02:40:15,000 OUR MOTHERS ARE OUR FIRST 4484 02:40:15,001 --> 02:40:17,000 TEACHERS AND THEY SHOULD BE 4485 02:40:17,001 --> 02:40:18,000 CELEBRATED EVERYDAY. 4486 02:40:18,001 --> 02:40:21,000 HOWEVER, LIKE MANY THING, 4487 02:40:21,001 --> 02:40:22,000 SOMETIMES WE TAKE THIS 4488 02:40:22,001 --> 02:40:24,000 MOTHERHOOD FOR GRANTED. 4489 02:40:24,001 --> 02:40:25,000 YES, WE SOMETIMES HAVE TEENAGE 4490 02:40:25,001 --> 02:40:28,000 MOTHERS OR GRANDMOTHERS AS 4491 02:40:28,001 --> 02:40:29,000 MOTHERS, NURTURING CHILDREN OF 4492 02:40:29,001 --> 02:40:31,000 THEIR CHILDREN. 4493 02:40:31,001 --> 02:40:32,000 WE HAVE ALING MOTHERS. 4494 02:40:32,001 --> 02:40:34,000 WE HAVE MOTHERS WHO HAVE PASSED. 4495 02:40:34,001 --> 02:40:35,000 AND THERE WILL BE MANY IN OUR 4496 02:40:35,001 --> 02:40:37,000 NATION WHO WILL BE CELEBRATING 4497 02:40:37,001 --> 02:40:39,000 OR COMMEMORATING MOTHER'S DAY 4498 02:40:39,001 --> 02:40:40,000 WORLD TRADE CENTER THAT YOU ARE 4499 02:40:40,001 --> 02:40:42,000 -- WITHOUT THEIR BELOVED MOM. 4500 02:40:42,001 --> 02:40:44,000 THEY'LL BE MOURNING THE LOSS, 4501 02:40:44,001 --> 02:40:45,000 MAYBE THEY'LL BE AT GRAVESITES 4502 02:40:45,001 --> 02:40:47,000 BUT WHAT I WILL SAY TO THEM IS 4503 02:40:47,001 --> 02:40:50,000 THAT THEY WILL HAVE THE WONDERFUL MEMORIES. 4504 02:40:50,001 --> 02:40:51,000 I WANT THE FACT THAT THIS IS 4505 02:40:51,001 --> 02:40:54,000 MOTHER'S DAY TO HAVE US REMEMBER 4506 02:40:54,001 --> 02:40:56,000 THAT BEING A MOM IS NOT EASY. 4507 02:40:56,001 --> 02:40:58,000 MOTHERHOOD IS NOT FOR THOSE WHO 4508 02:40:58,001 --> 02:41:01,000 MIGHT WANT TO GIVE UP, BUT MANY 4509 02:41:01,001 --> 02:41:02,000 TIMES IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE 4510 02:41:02,001 --> 02:41:05,000 CIRCLE OUR MOMS, GIVE THEM THE 4511 02:41:05,001 --> 02:41:06,000 STRENGTH TO BE ABLE TO CARRY ON, 4512 02:41:06,001 --> 02:41:08,000 BE REMINDED THAT IN ADDITION TO 4513 02:41:08,001 --> 02:41:10,000 MAKING DINNERER, THEY'RE DOING 4514 02:41:10,001 --> 02:41:11,000 BEDTIME STORIES. 4515 02:41:11,001 --> 02:41:13,000 MAYBE THERE ARE MOTHERS WHO 4516 02:41:13,001 --> 02:41:14,000 DON'T HAVE THE CAPABILITY, DON'T 4517 02:41:14,001 --> 02:41:16,000 HAVE THE TIME, ARE NOT ABLE TO 4518 02:41:16,001 --> 02:41:18,000 GET HOME BEFORE 12:00 MIDNIGHT, 4519 02:41:18,001 --> 02:41:19,000 WORK THE NIGHT SHIFT, WORK 4520 02:41:19,001 --> 02:41:21,000 AROUND THE CLOCK, WE SHOULD BE 4521 02:41:21,001 --> 02:41:22,000 SYMPATHETIC TO THEM. 4522 02:41:22,001 --> 02:41:25,000 I'M PROUD THAT THIS CONGRESS HAS 4523 02:41:25,001 --> 02:41:26,000 RECOGNIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF 4524 02:41:26,001 --> 02:41:28,000 MOTHERS, ONE OF THE FIRST BILL 4525 02:41:28,001 --> 02:41:29,000 THAT WE SIGNED WAS THE EQUAL PAY 4526 02:41:29,001 --> 02:41:32,000 BILL. 4527 02:41:32,001 --> 02:41:35,000 WE ALSO PROVIDED AND SIGNED THE 4528 02:41:35,001 --> 02:41:37,000 CHIPS BILL THAT PROVIDED FOR 11 4529 02:41:37,001 --> 02:41:39,000 MILLION MORE CHILDREN TO HAVE 4530 02:41:39,001 --> 02:41:40,000 HEALTH CARE. 4531 02:41:40,001 --> 02:41:41,000 THAT HELPS THE MOTHERS OF 4532 02:41:41,001 --> 02:41:43,000 AMERICA. 4533 02:41:43,001 --> 02:41:44,000 WE ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT 47 4534 02:41:44,001 --> 02:41:46,000 MILLION AMERICANS ARE UNINSURED. 4535 02:41:46,001 --> 02:41:47,000 MANY OF THEM ARE MOTHERS WITH 4536 02:41:47,001 --> 02:41:49,000 YOUNG CHILDREN. 4537 02:41:49,001 --> 02:41:51,000 MANY OF THEM ARE MOTHERS WITH 4538 02:41:51,001 --> 02:41:53,000 AILMENTS WHO HAVE CATASTROPHIC ILLNESSES OR CHRONIC ILLNESSES. 4539 02:41:53,001 --> 02:41:57,000 WE WANT TO SAY TO THEM, THANK 4540 02:41:57,001 --> 02:41:58,000 YOU, BY PROVIDING THOSE MOTHERS 4541 02:41:58,001 --> 02:41:59,000 WITH FULL COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH 4542 02:41:59,001 --> 02:42:01,000 CARE. 4543 02:42:01,001 --> 02:42:03,000 WE KNOW THAT MOTHERS ARE CARING 4544 02:42:03,001 --> 02:42:05,000 AND COURAGEOUS WOMEN WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES THEY 4545 02:42:05,001 --> 02:42:06,000 TOUCH. 4546 02:42:06,001 --> 02:42:08,000 AS A JEWISH PROVERB SAYS, GOD 4547 02:42:08,001 --> 02:42:09,000 COULD NOT BE EVERYWHERE AND 4548 02:42:09,001 --> 02:42:12,000 THEREFORE HE MADE MOTHERS AND SO 4549 02:42:12,001 --> 02:42:13,000 THIS MOTHER'S DAY IS A 4550 02:42:13,001 --> 02:42:16,000 CELEBRATION FOR GRANDMOTHERS, 4551 02:42:16,001 --> 02:42:17,000 FOSTER MOTHERS, GODMOTHERS, 4552 02:42:17,001 --> 02:42:19,000 MOTHERS WHO TAKE IN CHILDREN, 4553 02:42:19,001 --> 02:42:20,000 MOTHERS OF ALL ETHNICITIES, ALL 4554 02:42:20,001 --> 02:42:22,000 BACKGROUNDS, ALL ECONOMIC 4555 02:42:22,001 --> 02:42:25,000 LEVELS. WE ARE TO CELEBRATE THEM. 4556 02:42:25,001 --> 02:42:26,000 TODAY THOUSANDS OF MOTHERS IN 4557 02:42:26,001 --> 02:42:27,000 THIS COUNTRY HAVE BECOME ACTIVE 4558 02:42:27,001 --> 02:42:29,000 AND EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATES IN 4559 02:42:29,001 --> 02:42:30,000 PUBLIC LIFE AND PUBLIC 4560 02:42:30,001 --> 02:42:31,000 CERTIFICATE SERVICE, PROMOTING 4561 02:42:31,001 --> 02:42:33,000 CHANGE AND IMPROVING THE QUALITY 4562 02:42:33,001 --> 02:42:34,000 OF LIFE FOR MEN, WOMEN AND 4563 02:42:34,001 --> 02:42:36,000 CHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE NATION. 4564 02:42:36,001 --> 02:42:40,000 I CANNOT FIND THE WORDS TO THANK 4565 02:42:40,001 --> 02:42:42,000 ALL OF THESE MOTHERS WHO MAYBE 4566 02:42:42,001 --> 02:42:44,000 LEGISLATORS, -- MAY BE 4567 02:42:44,001 --> 02:42:46,000 LEGISLATORS, LAWYERS, AND I ALSO 4568 02:42:46,001 --> 02:42:48,000 THANK THOSE MOTHERS WHO ARE 4569 02:42:48,001 --> 02:42:50,000 WAITRESSES, WHO ARE NURSE'S 4570 02:42:50,001 --> 02:42:51,000 AIDS, WHO DRIVE BUSES, WHO ARE 4571 02:42:51,001 --> 02:42:53,000 OUT ON THE CONSTCTION SITES, 4572 02:42:53,001 --> 02:42:54,000 WHO ARE POETS, WHO ARE AUTHORS. 4573 02:42:54,001 --> 02:42:56,000 THEY'RE ALL PART OF OUR LIFE. 4574 02:42:56,001 --> 02:43:11,000 WANT TO PAY TRIBUTE TO MY OWN 4575 02:43:11,001 --> 02:43:12,000 MOTHER, STRONG, 4576 02:43:12,001 --> 02:43:13,000 ELDERLY AND FRAIL NOW. BUT HAVING RAISED US, I THANK 4577 02:43:13,001 --> 02:43:14,000 HER FOR THE INTEGRITY AND THE 4578 02:43:14,001 --> 02:43:15,000 DETERMINATION AND THE SPIRIT AND 4579 02:43:15,001 --> 02:43:16,000 THE LOVE SHE GAVE. 4580 02:43:16,001 --> 02:43:17,000 I'M GRATEFUL FOR MY GRANDMOTHERS 4581 02:43:17,001 --> 02:43:20,000 , MY AUNTS. 4582 02:43:20,001 --> 02:43:21,000 I'M GRATEFUL FOR MY AUNT SARA, 4583 02:43:21,001 --> 02:43:23,000 I'M GRATEF FOR THE EXTENDED 4584 02:43:23,001 --> 02:43:24,000 FAMILY MEMBERS. 4585 02:43:24,001 --> 02:43:25,000 I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE FUTURE 4586 02:43:25,001 --> 02:43:30,000 MOTHERS, MY DAUGHTER, ERICA LEE, 4587 02:43:30,001 --> 02:43:32,000 AND SO I AM THANKFUL TODAY THAT 4588 02:43:32,001 --> 02:43:34,000 TRUEST FRIEND WE HAVE WHEN 4589 02:43:34,001 --> 02:43:36,000 TRIALS ARE HEAVY AND SUDDEN AND 4590 02:43:36,001 --> 02:43:37,000 FALL UPON US WHEN ADVERSITY 4591 02:43:37,001 --> 02:43:39,000 TAKES THE PLACE OF PROSPERITY, 4592 02:43:39,001 --> 02:43:40,000 WHEN FRIENDS WHO REJOICE WITH US 4593 02:43:40,001 --> 02:43:42,000 AT OUR SUNSHINE DESSERT US, WHEN 4594 02:43:42,001 --> 02:43:45,000 TROUBLE THICKENS AROUND US, 4595 02:43:45,001 --> 02:43:47,000 STILL WILL SHE CLING TO US. 4596 02:43:47,001 --> 02:43:49,000 AND ENAVOR BY HER PREACCEPTS 4597 02:43:49,001 --> 02:43:52,000 AND COUNSELS TO DISSIPATE THE 4598 02:43:52,001 --> 02:43:53,000 CLOUDS OF DARKNESS AND CAUSE 4599 02:43:53,001 --> 02:43:55,000 PEACE TO RETURN TO OUR HEARTS. 4600 02:43:55,001 --> 02:43:57,000 A MOTHER IS THE TRUEST FRIEND 4601 02:43:57,001 --> 02:43:59,000 AND WE NO THAT THROUGH AN 4602 02:43:59,001 --> 02:44:01,000 AMERICAN AUTHOR, WASHINGTON 4603 02:44:01,001 --> 02:44:02,000 ERVIN. 4604 02:44:02,001 --> 02:44:10,000 AND TODAY, AS I FINISH MY 4605 02:44:10,001 --> 02:44:11,000 REMARKS, I WANT TO PARTICULARLY 4606 02:44:11,001 --> 02:44:12,000 SAY TO THOSE MOTHERS WHO MAY BE 4607 02:44:12,001 --> 02:44:13,000 LISTENING TO, TO OUR COLLEAGUES 4608 02:44:13,001 --> 02:44:14,000 WHO ARE LIKEWISE MOTHERS, TO THE 4609 02:44:14,001 --> 02:44:15,000 IAN PACIFIC MOTHERS AS WE 4610 02:44:15,001 --> 02:44:18,000 CELEBRATE ASIAN PACIFIC MONTH, WHEREVER THEY MIGHT BE, WE WANT 4611 02:44:18,001 --> 02:44:19,000 GIVE THEM A HELPING HANDLE. 4612 02:44:19,001 --> 02:44:21,000 AND THROUGH A MOTHER, I WANT TO 4613 02:44:21,001 --> 02:44:23,000 BE ABLE TO SAY, I WANT NO CHILD 4614 02:44:23,001 --> 02:44:25,000 TO EVER GO AHEAD HUNGRY. 4615 02:44:25,001 --> 02:44:26,000 WE WANT NO CHILD TO EVER NOT 4616 02:44:26,001 --> 02:44:28,000 HAVE AN EDUCATION AND WE WANT 4617 02:44:28,001 --> 02:44:29,000 YOU TO HAVE THE FULLEST 4618 02:44:29,001 --> 02:44:31,000 OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE CHILDREN TO 4619 02:44:31,001 --> 02:44:33,000 BE HEALTHY AND PRODUCTIVE. 4620 02:44:33,001 --> 02:44:35,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4621 02:44:35,001 --> 02:44:37,000 GENTLELADY'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. MS. JACKSON LEE: I CLOSE BY 4622 02:44:37,001 --> 02:44:39,000 SAYING SIMPLY THIS, IF YOU 4623 02:44:39,001 --> 02:44:40,000 BUNGLE RAISING YOUR CHILDREN, I 4624 02:44:40,001 --> 02:44:42,000 DON'T THINK WHATEVER ELSE YOU DO 4625 02:44:42,001 --> 02:44:43,000 WELL MATTERS 4626 02:44:43,001 --> 02:44:44,000 WE WANT OUR MOTHERS NOT TO 4627 02:44:44,001 --> 02:44:45,000 BUNGLE. 4628 02:44:45,001 --> 02:44:47,000 GOD BLESS THEM AND GOD BLESS 4629 02:44:47,001 --> 02:44:51,000 AMERICA. 4630 02:44:51,001 --> 02:44:53,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4631 02:44:53,001 --> 02:44:54,000 GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK THE 4632 02:44:54,001 --> 02:44:55,000 BALANCE OF HER TIME. 4633 02:44:55,001 --> 02:44:57,000 UNDER THE SPEAKER'S ANNOUNCED 4634 02:44:57,001 --> 02:44:58,000 POLICY OF JANUARY 6, 2009, THE 4635 02:44:58,001 --> 02:45:00,000 CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE GENTLEMAN 4636 02:45:00,001 --> 02:45:04,000 FROM AMERICAN SAMOA, MR. FILETOW 4637 02:45:04,001 --> 02:45:06,000 MA VEGA FOR 60 MINUTES. 4638 02:45:06,001 --> 02:45:08,000 FALFAL THANK YOU, MADAM SPEAKER. 4639 02:45:08,001 --> 02:45:10,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I ASK UNANIMOUS 4640 02:45:10,001 --> 02:45:12,000 CONSENT TO EXTEND AND REVISE MY 4641 02:45:12,001 --> 02:45:13,000 REMARKS. 4642 02:45:13,001 --> 02:45:15,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I RISE TODAY ON 4643 02:45:15,001 --> 02:45:17,000 BEHALF OF MYSELF AND MY GOOD 4644 02:45:17,001 --> 02:45:20,000 FRIEND AND COLLEAG, THE 4645 02:45:20,001 --> 02:45:21,000 GENTLEMAN FROM NEW JERSEY, MR. 4646 02:45:21,001 --> 02:45:24,000 CHRISTOPHER SMITH, AS WE HAVE 4647 02:45:24,001 --> 02:45:25,000 INTRODUCED A RESOLUTION 4648 02:45:25,001 --> 02:45:27,000 CONDEMNING THE TRANSPORT OF 4649 02:45:27,001 --> 02:45:30,000 CERTAIN TYPES OF NUCLEAR WASTE 4650 02:45:30,001 --> 02:45:33,000 COMMONLY KNOWN AS MIX OXIDE FUEL 4651 02:45:33,001 --> 02:45:34,000 CONTAINING PLUTONIUM AND URANIUM 4652 02:45:34,001 --> 02:45:38,000 THROUGH INTERNATIONAL WATERS AND 4653 02:45:38,001 --> 02:45:39,000 WE URGE THE COUNTRIES THAT 4654 02:45:39,001 --> 02:45:41,000 PRODUCE THE 4655 02:45:41,001 --> 02:45:42,000 NUCLEAR WASTE WITHIN THEIR 4656 02:45:42,001 --> 02:45:43,000 BORDERS. 4657 02:45:43,001 --> 02:45:47,000 MADAM SPEAKER, LAST MONTH TWO 4658 02:45:47,001 --> 02:45:49,000 BRITISH FLAG VESSELS LEFT FRANCE 4659 02:45:49,001 --> 02:45:51,000 WITH 1.8 TONS OF PLUTONIUM BOUND 4660 02:45:51,001 --> 02:45:53,000 FOR JAPAN. 4661 02:45:53,001 --> 02:45:56,000 THEY ARE SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE IN 4662 02:45:56,001 --> 02:45:58,000 PORT AT SOME POINT THIS MONTH. 4663 02:45:58,001 --> 02:45:59,000 FROM WHAT HAS BEEN MADE PUBLIC, 4664 02:45:59,001 --> 02:46:03,000 THE SHIPMENT IS TO TRAVEL VIA 4665 02:46:03,001 --> 02:46:06,000 CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AROUND 4666 02:46:06,001 --> 02:46:07,000 THE SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN, THEN 4667 02:46:07,001 --> 02:46:11,000 THROUGH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN 4668 02:46:11,001 --> 02:46:13,000 AS IT MAINIAN SEA, THROUGH 4669 02:46:13,001 --> 02:46:14,000 AUSTRAA AND NEW ZEALAND AND 4670 02:46:14,001 --> 02:46:16,000 THEN THROUGH THE WEST-SOUTHWEST 4671 02:46:16,001 --> 02:46:17,000 PACIFIC OCEAN AND FINALLY TO 4672 02:46:17,001 --> 02:46:19,000 JAPAN. 4673 02:46:19,001 --> 02:46:21,000 THE PLUTONIUM ITSELF IS 4674 02:46:21,001 --> 02:46:24,000 CONTAINED WITHIN WHAT IS 4675 02:46:24,001 --> 02:46:27,000 COMMONLY KNOWN AS MOCX FUEL. 4676 02:46:27,001 --> 02:46:28,000 A TOXIC MIXTURE OF PLUTONIUM AND 4677 02:46:28,001 --> 02:46:31,000 URANIUM OXIDE. 4678 02:46:31,001 --> 02:46:33,000 THE MOX -- THE M.O.X. WILL BE 4679 02:46:33,001 --> 02:46:35,000 USED BY JAPANESE ELECTRIC 4680 02:46:35,001 --> 02:46:41,000 UTILITIES TO POWER THEIR ENERGY 4681 02:46:41,001 --> 02:46:43,000 -- NUCLEAR ENERGY PLAPTS. 4682 02:46:43,001 --> 02:46:46,000 MADAM SPEAKER, THE MIXED OX 4683 02:46:46,001 --> 02:46:47,000 SIDE FUEL IS LEGAL. 4684 02:46:47,001 --> 02:46:49,000 THE RELEASE OF EVEN A SMALL 4685 02:46:49,001 --> 02:46:51,000 AMOUNT OF IT DURING TRANSPORT 4686 02:46:51,001 --> 02:46:55,000 OVER THOUSANDS OF MILES OF OPEN 4687 02:46:55,001 --> 02:46:56,000 SEA, WHETHER AS A RESULT OF 4688 02:46:56,001 --> 02:46:58,000 ACCIDENTS OR MALICIOUS INTENT, 4689 02:46:58,001 --> 02:47:00,000 WOULD CAUSE SERIOUS 4690 02:47:00,001 --> 02:47:01,000 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND 4691 02:47:01,001 --> 02:47:03,000 ECONOMIC HARM TO SURROUNDING 4692 02:47:03,001 --> 02:47:04,000 AREAS. 4693 02:47:04,001 --> 02:47:07,000 THAT MUCH HAS ALWAYS BEEN MADE 4694 02:47:07,001 --> 02:47:10,000 EAR. 4695 02:47:10,001 --> 02:47:11,000 BUT THE M.O.X. POSES A FAR MORE 4696 02:47:11,001 --> 02:47:13,000 OMINOUS THREAT. 4697 02:47:13,001 --> 02:47:14,000 WITH THE RIGHT TECHNOLOGY, IT 4698 02:47:14,001 --> 02:47:17,000 CAN BE REPROCESSED INTO 4699 02:47:17,001 --> 02:47:20,000 WEAPONS-GRADE MATERIAL. ACCORDING TO REPUTABLE 4700 02:47:20,001 --> 02:47:21,000 ESTIMATES, ENOUGH PLUTONIUM IS 4701 02:47:21,001 --> 02:47:23,000 CONTAINED IN THE M.O.X. 4702 02:47:23,001 --> 02:47:24,000 CURRENTLY HEADED TOWARD JAPAN 4703 02:47:24,001 --> 02:47:26,000 TO PRODUCE MORE THAN 200 4704 02:47:26,001 --> 02:47:28,000 NUCLEAR BOMBS. 4705 02:47:28,001 --> 02:47:29,000 EVERY MEMBER OF THIS CHAMBER, 4706 02:47:29,001 --> 02:47:31,000 MADAM SPEAKER, KNOWS THAT AL 4707 02:47:31,001 --> 02:47:33,000 QAEDA AND ITS NETWORKS WOULD 4708 02:47:33,001 --> 02:47:35,000 LI NOTHING BETTER THAN TO GET 4709 02:47:35,001 --> 02:47:38,000 THEIR HANDS ON ENOUGH MATERIAL 4710 02:47:38,001 --> 02:47:40,000 TO BUILD A NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVE 4711 02:47:40,001 --> 02:47:42,000 DEVICE, A RADIOLOGICAL BOMB, 4712 02:47:42,001 --> 02:47:45,000 HOWEVER CRUDE TO DETONATE IT 4713 02:47:45,001 --> 02:47:47,000 WHERE IT CAN DO THE MOST HARM. 4714 02:47:47,001 --> 02:47:49,000 WE AND OUR ALLIES AROUND THE 4715 02:47:49,001 --> 02:47:50,000 WORLD HAVE COMMITTED OUR BEST 4716 02:47:50,001 --> 02:47:53,000 INTELLIG 4717 02:47:53,001 --> 02:47:54,000 CIVILIAN OFFICIALS, TO WORK 4718 02:47:54,001 --> 02:47:55,000 AROUND THE CLOCK TO ELIMINATE 4719 02:47:55,001 --> 02:47:56,000 THE POSSIBILITY OF THAT EVER 4720 02:47:56,001 --> 02:47:58,000 HAPPENING. 4721 02:47:58,001 --> 02:48:00,000 AND YET,Y PERMITTING THE 4722 02:48:00,001 --> 02:48:02,000 TRANSPORT OF M.O.X. OVER OPEN 4723 02:48:02,001 --> 02:48:04,000 SEAS, OBVIOUSLY WE ARE 4724 02:48:04,001 --> 02:48:06,000 PROVIDING TERRORISTS ONE MORE 4725 02:48:06,001 --> 02:48:08,000 AVENUE OF ATTACK FOR GETTING 4726 02:48:08,001 --> 02:48:10,000 ACCESS TO THE NUCLEAR MATERIALS 4727 02:48:10,001 --> 02:48:14,000 THEY HAVE SO LONG COVETED. 4728 02:48:14,001 --> 02:48:16,000 INDEED, THE O.E.X. -- THE OECD 4729 02:48:16,001 --> 02:48:19,000 NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY SAID THAT 4730 02:48:19,001 --> 02:48:22,000 THE RISK OF HIJACKING A SHIP 4731 02:48:22,001 --> 02:48:23,000 CARRYING NUCLEAR MATERIALS, 4732 02:48:23,001 --> 02:48:24,000 WHILE SMALL, COULD NOT BE RULED 4733 02:48:24,001 --> 02:48:25,000 OUT. 4734 02:48:25,001 --> 02:48:27,000 MADAM SPEAKER, PRIVATE -- 4735 02:48:27,001 --> 02:48:28,000 PIRACY HAS BECOME AN OBVIOUS 4736 02:48:28,001 --> 02:48:30,000 PROBLEM AROUND THE GLOBE. 4737 02:48:30,001 --> 02:48:32,000 SO FAR THIS YEAR, JUST IN THE 4738 02:48:32,001 --> 02:48:35,000 WATERS OF SOMALIA ALONE, 4739 02:48:35,001 --> 02:48:37,000 PIRATES HAVE ATTACKED 61 SHIPS. 4740 02:48:37,001 --> 02:48:39,000 MORE THAN A DOZEN OF THOSE 4741 02:48:39,001 --> 02:48:41,000 VESSELS REMAIN IN THE PIRATES' 4742 02:48:41,001 --> 02:48:43,000 HANDS TO THIS VERY DAY. 4743 02:48:43,001 --> 02:48:46,000 ONE OF THEM, THE UKRAINIAN 4744 02:48:46,001 --> 02:48:47,000 CARGO SHIP, ACTUALLY CONTAINED 4745 02:48:47,001 --> 02:48:53,000 MILITARY EQUIPMENT. 4746 02:48:53,001 --> 02:48:54,000 33 BATTLE TANKS. 4747 02:48:54,001 --> 02:48:57,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I HAVE NO DOUBT 4748 02:48:57,001 --> 02:49:00,000 THAT EVERYONE HERE REMEMBERS 4749 02:49:00,001 --> 02:49:04,000 THE HIJACKING OF THE ALABAMA 4750 02:49:04,001 --> 02:49:06,000 OFF THE SO MA'AMA COAST AND THE 4751 02:49:06,001 --> 02:49:07,000 HEROIC ACTIONS OF THE CAPTAIN 4752 02:49:07,001 --> 02:49:10,000 AND HIS CREW. 4753 02:49:10,001 --> 02:49:13,000 IT WAS CAPTURED BY FOUR IS A SO 4754 02:49:13,001 --> 02:49:15,000 MALLI PIRATES ON -- SO MAUL LEE 4755 02:49:15,001 --> 02:49:21,000 PIRATES ON APRIL -- SEW MAUL 4756 02:49:21,001 --> 02:49:23,000 LEE PIRES ON APRIL 8, THE 4757 02:49:23,001 --> 02:49:26,000 CAPTAIN SURRENDERED AND ENDED 4758 02:49:26,001 --> 02:49:27,000 UP IN A LIFEBOAT WITH THE 4759 02:49:27,001 --> 02:49:29,000 PIRATES FOR FOUR DAYS. 4760 02:49:29,001 --> 02:49:33,000 THANKFULLY, CAPTAIN RICHARD 4761 02:49:33,001 --> 02:49:34,000 PHILLIPS WAS RESCUED ON APRIL 4762 02:49:34,001 --> 02:49:36,000 12. 4763 02:49:36,001 --> 02:49:37,000 OUR -- BUT OUR NAVY SEALS HAD 4764 02:49:37,001 --> 02:49:39,000 TO JUSTIFIABLY KILL THREE OF 4765 02:49:39,001 --> 02:49:42,000 HIS TAKERS. 4766 02:49:42,001 --> 02:49:43,000 PIRATES HAVE ISSUED THREATS TO 4767 02:49:43,001 --> 02:49:45,000 TARG 4768 02:49:45,001 --> 02:49:46,000 THIS JE REGION. 4769 02:49:46,001 --> 02:49:47,000 MADAM SPEAKER WE KNOW IT 4770 02:49:47,001 --> 02:49:51,000 DOESN'T COST MUCH TO HIRE A 4771 02:49:51,001 --> 02:49:52,000 BAND OF SOMALI PIRATES A 4772 02:49:52,001 --> 02:49:53,000 ARE NOT PARTICULARLY FUSSY 4773 02:49:53,001 --> 02:49:59,000 ABOUT THEIR CLIENTELE. 4774 02:49:59,001 --> 02:50:01,000 NOT SAIL OVER SOMALIAN WATERS 4775 02:50:01,001 --> 02:50:05,000 THEY WILL LIKELY PASS THROUGH 4776 02:50:05,001 --> 02:50:06,000 THE STRAITS OF MARACCA, THE 4777 02:50:06,001 --> 02:50:08,000 VITAL LINK BETWEEN THE INDIAN 4778 02:50:08,001 --> 02:50:09,000 AN PACIFIC OCEANS. 4779 02:50:09,001 --> 02:50:11,000 BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, THOSE 4780 02:50:11,001 --> 02:50:13,000 STRAITS ARE PLIED WITH THEIR 4781 02:50:13,001 --> 02:50:16,000 OWN BANDS OF PIRATES. 4782 02:50:16,001 --> 02:50:17,000 INDEED, ACCORDING TO THE 4783 02:50:17,001 --> 02:50:20,000 INTERNATIONAL MARITIME BUREAU, 4784 02:50:20,001 --> 02:50:21,000 THESE AND NEARBY WATERS HAVE 4785 02:50:21,001 --> 02:50:23,000 BEEN RANKED THE WORLD'S MOST 4786 02:50:23,001 --> 02:50:24,000 DANGEROUS SEA ROUTES. 4787 02:50:24,001 --> 02:50:27,000 IN THE YEAR 2004, 40% OF ALL 4788 02:50:27,001 --> 02:50:31,000 PIRATE ATTACKS IN THE WORLD 4789 02:50:31,001 --> 02:50:35,000 TOOK PLACE IN THOSE STRAITS AND 4790 02:50:35,001 --> 02:50:36,000 NEARBY INDONESIAN WATERS. 4791 02:50:36,001 --> 02:50:37,000 TERRORISTS NEED NOT HIRE 4792 02:50:37,001 --> 02:50:42,000 PIRATES TO DO THEIR DIRTY WORK. 4793 02:50:42,001 --> 02:50:45,000 IN 2002, AL QAEDA OPERATIVES 4794 02:50:45,001 --> 02:50:46,000 RAMMED A BOAT RIGGED WITH 4795 02:50:46,001 --> 02:50:50,000 EXPLOSIVES INTO A FRENCH BOAT 4796 02:50:50,001 --> 02:50:53,000 OFF THE COAST OF YEMEN. 4797 02:50:53,001 --> 02:50:55,000 THE TWO SHIPS TRANSRTING THE 4798 02:50:55,001 --> 02:50:56,000 NUCLEAR WASTE ARE NOT WITHOUT 4799 02:50:56,001 --> 02:51:00,000 PROTECTION. 4800 02:51:00,001 --> 02:51:02,000 THEY ARE ARMED WITH FIVE 30 4801 02:51:02,001 --> 02:51:03,000 MILLIMETER NAVAL CANNONS. 4802 02:51:03,001 --> 02:51:06,000 IN ADDITION A GROUP OF ARMED 4803 02:51:06,001 --> 02:51:08,000 POLICE OFFICERS FROM THE UNITED 4804 02:51:08,001 --> 02:51:09,000 KINGDOM OFFICE OF CIVIL NUCLEAR 4805 02:51:09,001 --> 02:51:11,000 SECURITY IS ON BOARD. 4806 02:51:11,001 --> 02:51:13,000 HOWEVER A UDY DONE BY THE 4807 02:51:13,001 --> 02:51:15,000 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 4808 02:51:15,001 --> 02:51:16,000 CONCLUDES THAT DUE TO THE RISK 4809 02:51:16,001 --> 02:51:19,000 OF ATTACK OF NUCLEAR SHIPMENTS, 4810 02:51:19,001 --> 02:51:20,000 THERE'S A NEED TO PROVIDE 4811 02:51:20,001 --> 02:51:22,000 CONTINUOUS BACKUP SUPPORT FOR 4812 02:51:22,001 --> 02:51:23,000 THE VESSEL BY MILITARY SECURITY 4813 02:51:23,001 --> 02:51:28,000 ASSETS. 4814 02:51:28,001 --> 02:51:31,000 IN 1992 A SHIPMENT OF 1.7 TONS 4815 02:51:31,001 --> 02:51:35,000 OF M.O.X. NUCLEAR MATERIAL FROM 4816 02:51:35,001 --> 02:51:38,000 FRANCE TO JAPAN WAS ESCORTED BY 4817 02:51:38,001 --> 02:51:40,000 A JAPANESE COAST GUARD VESSEL. 4818 02:51:40,001 --> 02:51:42,000 THIS TIME, THE PUBLIC DOESN'T 4819 02:51:42,001 --> 02:51:44,000 KNOW WHAT SORT OF VESSEL ARE 4820 02:51:44,001 --> 02:51:45,000 ESCORTING THESE SHIPS. 4821 02:51:45,001 --> 02:51:47,000 THE PENTAGON CONCLUDED IN ITS 4822 02:51:47,001 --> 02:51:49,000 OWN ASSESSMENT OF SEA SHIPMENTS 4823 02:51:49,001 --> 02:51:52,000 OF PLUTONIUM THAT, AND I QUOTE, 4824 02:51:52,001 --> 02:51:54,000 EVEN IF THE MOST CAREFUL 4825 02:51:54,001 --> 02:51:56,000 PRECAUTIONS ARE OBSERVED, NO 4826 02:51:56,001 --> 02:51:57,000 ONE CAN GUAR 4827 02:51:57,001 --> 02:51:58,000 HAVE TO THE CARGO FROM A 4828 02:51:58,001 --> 02:52:01,000 SECURITY INCIDENT SUCH AS AN 4829 02:52:01,001 --> 02:52:04,000 ATTACK ON THE VESSEL BY SMALL, 4830 02:52:04,001 --> 02:52:06,000 ST CRAFT, ESPECIALLY ARMED 4831 02:52:06,001 --> 02:52:07,000 WITH MODERN ANTI-SHIP MISSILES, 4832 02:52:07,001 --> 02:52:09,000 END QUOTE. 4833 02:52:09,001 --> 02:52:11,000 MADAM SPEAKER, THUS THE 4834 02:52:11,001 --> 02:52:13,000 TRANSPORT OF THIS NUCLEAR WASTE 4835 02:52:13,001 --> 02:52:14,000 POSES NOT ONLY THE 4836 02:52:14,001 --> 02:52:16,000 ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD WE HAVE 4837 02:52:16,001 --> 02:52:20,000 LONG BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT, BUT 4838 02:52:20,001 --> 02:52:22,000 ALSO A NONTRIVIAL TERRORIST OR 4839 02:52:22,001 --> 02:52:25,000 EVEN NUCLEAR DANGER AS WELL. 4840 02:52:25,001 --> 02:52:29,000 I ASK MY COLLEAGUES, IS THE 4841 02:52:29,001 --> 02:52:30,000 PRACTICE OF TRANSPORTING THESE 4842 02:52:30,001 --> 02:52:32,000 MATERIALS, NUCLEAR WASTE 4843 02:52:32,001 --> 02:52:33,000 MATERIALS, ACROSS INTERNATIONAL 4844 02:52:33,001 --> 02:52:34,000 WATERS WORTH THE RISK? 4845 02:52:34,001 --> 02:52:37,000 I SAY ABSOLUTELY NOT. 4846 02:52:37,001 --> 02:52:39,000 IT 4847 02:52:39,001 --> 02:52:40,000 THE WORLD THROUGH THE UNITED 4848 02:52:40,001 --> 02:52:42,000 NATIONS OR COUNTRIES THAT 4849 02:52:42,001 --> 02:52:43,000 PRODUCE NUCLEAR WASTE SHOULD 4850 02:52:43,001 --> 02:52:45,000 KEEP IT WITHIN THEIR OWN 4851 02:52:45,001 --> 02:52:47,000 BORDERS. 4852 02:52:47,001 --> 02:52:50,000 THAT WOULD BE A FIRST STEP. 4853 02:52:50,001 --> 02:52:51,000 MADAM SPEAKER, MAKE NO MISTAKE, 4854 02:52:51,001 --> 02:52:53,000 TRANSPORT OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS 4855 02:52:53,001 --> 02:52:56,000 EVEN WITHIN A COUNTRY'S BORDERS 4856 02:52:56,001 --> 02:52:57,000 POSES SERIOUS RISKS. NUCLEAR FUEL IS DANGEROUS 4857 02:52:57,001 --> 02:52:59,000 STUFF. 4858 02:52:59,001 --> 02:53:00,000 ACCORDING TO THE NUCLEAR 4859 02:53:00,001 --> 02:53:02,000 INFORMATION AND RESEARCH 4860 02:53:02,001 --> 02:53:06,000 SERVICE, AND I QUOTE A PERSON 4861 02:53:06,001 --> 02:53:08,000 STANDING THREE FEET FROM 4862 02:53:08,001 --> 02:53:10,000 UNSHIELDEDRRADIATED FUEL WILL 4863 02:53:10,001 --> 02:53:12,000 RECEIVE A LETHAL RADIATION DOSE 4864 02:53:12,001 --> 02:53:14,000 IN 10 SECONDS. 4865 02:53:14,001 --> 02:53:16,000 END OF QUOTE. 4866 02:53:16,001 --> 02:53:19,000 PLFER, THE SHIPPING CONTAINERS 4867 02:53:19,001 --> 02:53:20,000 IN WHICH RADIOACTIVE WASTE ARE 4868 02:53:20,001 --> 02:53:23,000 TRANSPORTED OVERLAND ARE 4869 02:53:23,001 --> 02:53:27,000 DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND AT MOST A 4870 02:53:27,001 --> 02:53:28,000 30-MILE-PER-HOUR CRASH INTO AN 4871 02:53:28,001 --> 02:53:29,000 IMMOVABLE OBJECT. 4872 02:53:29,001 --> 02:53:32,000 I'M SURE EVERY MEMBER OF THIS 4873 02:53:32,001 --> 02:53:34,000 CHAMBER STUDIOUSLY OBEYS THE 4874 02:53:34,001 --> 02:53:36,000 SPEED LIMITS BUT I'M NOT AWARE 4875 02:53:36,001 --> 02:53:38,000 OF TOO MANY HIGHWAYS WITH A 4876 02:53:38,001 --> 02:53:39,000 SPEED LIMIT OF 30 MILES PER 4877 02:53:39,001 --> 02:53:41,000 HOUR. 4878 02:53:41,001 --> 02:53:42,000 WHAT I FIND PARTICULARLY 4879 02:53:42,001 --> 02:53:44,000 DISCONCERTING IS THE NUCLEAR 4880 02:53:44,001 --> 02:53:46,000 REGULATORY COMMISSION HAS NOT 4881 02:53:46,001 --> 02:53:49,000 TESTED THESE SHIPPING TASKS. 4882 02:53:49,001 --> 02:53:51,000 INSTEAD, THEY RELY ON THE 4883 02:53:51,001 --> 02:53:52,000 RELIAB 4884 02:53:52,001 --> 02:53:53,000 SIMULATIONS. 4885 02:53:53,001 --> 02:53:55,000 A NUCLEAR INFORMATION AND 4886 02:53:55,001 --> 02:53:56,000 RESEARCH SERVICE FACT SHEELT 4887 02:53:56,001 --> 02:53:58,000 ALSO STATES, AND I QUOTE, THE 4888 02:53:58,001 --> 02:53:59,000 MORE SEVERE AN ACCIDENT, THE 4889 02:53:59,001 --> 02:54:01,000 MORE LIKELY AT RADIOACTIVE 4890 02:54:01,001 --> 02:54:02,000 MATERIAL WOULD BE RELEASED INTO 4891 02:54:02,001 --> 02:54:06,000 THE ENVIRONMENT. 4892 02:54:06,001 --> 02:54:11,000 A LOW-SPEED ACCIDENT COULD 4893 02:54:11,001 --> 02:54:14,000 UNSEAT A OR DAMAGE A SEAL, -- A 4894 02:54:14,001 --> 02:54:15,000 VALVE OR DAMAGE A SEAL, 4895 02:54:15,001 --> 02:54:17,000 RELEASING PARTICULATES INTO THE 4896 02:54:17,001 --> 02:54:20,000 ENVIRONMENT, IT COULD CRACK THE 4897 02:54:20,001 --> 02:54:22,000 BRITTLE METAL AROUND THE FUEL. 4898 02:54:22,001 --> 02:54:23,000 END OF QUOTE. 4899 02:54:23,001 --> 02:54:25,000 IN RESPONSE TO A BALTIMORE RAIL 4900 02:54:25,001 --> 02:54:27,000 ACCIDENT INVOLVING DANGEROUS 4901 02:54:27,001 --> 02:54:28,000 CHEMICAL, OUR SENATE MAJORITY 4902 02:54:28,001 --> 02:54:30,000 LEADER, HARRY REID OF NEVADA, 4903 02:54:30,001 --> 02:54:34,000 AND I QUOTE, HE SAID, EVERYONE 4904 02:54:34,001 --> 02:54:36,000 NEEDS TO RECOGNIZE THAT TRANSPORTING DANGEROUS 4905 02:54:36,001 --> 02:54:39,000 MATERIALS IS VERY DIFFICULT. 4906 02:54:39,001 --> 02:54:41,000 THE LEAKING HYDROCHLORIC ACID 4907 02:54:41,001 --> 02:54:42,000 IN BALTIMORE IS NOTHING 4908 02:54:42,001 --> 02:54:44,000 COMPARED TO THE HIGH-LEVEL 4909 02:54:44,001 --> 02:54:46,000 RADIOACTIVE WASTE OPOSED FOR 4910 02:54:46,001 --> 02:54:50,000 THE YOU KA MOUNTAINS SITE 100 4911 02:54:50,001 --> 02:54:52,000 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAS VEGAS. 4912 02:54:52,001 --> 02:54:55,000 A SPECK THE SIZE OF A PINPOINT WOULD KILL A PERSON. 4913 02:54:55,001 --> 02:54:57,000 WHAT WE SHOULD DO WITH NUCLEAR 4914 02:54:57,001 --> 02:55:01,000 WASTE IS LEAVE IT WHERE IT IS. 4915 02:55:01,001 --> 02:55:03,000 MADAM SPEAKER, EVEN JUST WITHIN 4916 02:55:03,001 --> 02:55:05,000 OUR OWN DOMESTIC BORDERS, WE'VE 4917 02:55:05,001 --> 02:55:07,000 BEEN A -- WE'VE BECOME A DEEPLY 4918 02:55:07,001 --> 02:55:09,000 DIVIDED NATION CONCERNING THE STORAGE OF NUCLEAR WASTE 4919 02:55:09,001 --> 02:55:10,000 MATERIALS WITHIN OUR OWN 4920 02:55:10,001 --> 02:55:12,000 COUNTRY. 4921 02:55:12,001 --> 02:55:14,000 YEARS AGO, IN ITS SO-CALLED 4922 02:55:14,001 --> 02:55:15,000 INFINITE WISDOM, CONGRESS 4923 02:55:15,001 --> 02:55:19,000 DECIDED TO BUILD A MULTIBILLION 4924 02:55:19,001 --> 02:55:21,000 DOLLAR STORAGE FACILITY AT YOU 4925 02:55:21,001 --> 02:55:22,000 KA MOUNTAIN IN THE STATE OF -- 4926 02:55:22,001 --> 02:55:23,000 AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN IN THE STATE 4927 02:55:23,001 --> 02:55:26,000 OF NEVADA. 4928 02:55:26,001 --> 02:55:28,000 UNFORTUNATELY, WERE THE 4929 02:55:28,001 --> 02:55:29,000 RESIDENTS OF NEVADA EVER GIVEN 4930 02:55:29,001 --> 02:55:32,000 THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A SAY 4931 02:55:32,001 --> 02:55:34,000 IN THE PROCESS DESPITE STRONG 4932 02:55:34,001 --> 02:55:36,000 OBJECTIONS FROM ITS DELEGATION? 4933 02:55:36,001 --> 02:55:37,000 IF I WERE A RESIDENT OF NEVADA, 4934 02:55:37,001 --> 02:55:40,000 I WOULD OBJECT TO THE WHOLE 4935 02:55:40,001 --> 02:55:41,000 IDEA OF OTHER STATES SHIPPING 4936 02:55:41,001 --> 02:55:43,000 THEIR NUCLEAR WASTE MATERIALS 4937 02:55:43,001 --> 02:55:46,000 IN MY BACKYARD. 4938 02:55:46,001 --> 02:55:47,000 THE QUESTION THAT COMES TO 4939 02:55:47,001 --> 02:55:50,000 MIND, MADAM SPEAKER WHAT TOWN, 4940 02:55:50,001 --> 02:55:51,000 WHAT CITY, WHAT RURAL FARM 4941 02:55:51,001 --> 02:55:53,000 AREAS ARE GOING TO BE USED OR 4942 02:55:53,001 --> 02:55:56,000 DESIGNATED FOR SHIPMENTS BY 4943 02:55:56,001 --> 02:55:58,000 TRUCK, BY TRAIN, BY CAR, BY 4944 02:55:58,001 --> 02:55:59,000 AIRPLANES, WHAT GUARANTEES ARE 4945 02:55:59,001 --> 02:56:01,000 THERE THAT THESE SHIPMENTS ARE 4946 02:56:01,001 --> 02:56:03,000 NOT GOING TO BE SUBJECTED BY 4947 02:56:03,001 --> 02:56:05,000 TERRORIST ATTACKS OR EVEN BY 4948 02:56:05,001 --> 02:56:09,000 ACCIDENT. 4949 02:56:09,001 --> 02:56:11,000 REMEMBER THE OIL SPILL AT 4950 02:56:11,001 --> 02:56:13,000 VALDEZ, ALASKA, MADAM SPEAKER? 4951 02:56:13,001 --> 02:56:14,000 EVERYBODY SAID IT WAS 4952 02:56:14,001 --> 02:56:16,000 ABSOLUTELY SAFE TO CONDUCT SUCH 4953 02:56:16,001 --> 02:56:18,000 SHIPMENTS OF OIL. WELL, IT HAPPENED. 4954 02:56:18,001 --> 02:56:21,000 THE SAME THING CAN BE SAID IF 4955 02:56:21,001 --> 02:56:23,000 NUCLEAR WASTE MATERIALS WILL BE 4956 02:56:23,001 --> 02:56:27,000 SHIPPED TO YUCCA MOUNTAIN IN 4957 02:56:27,001 --> 02:56:31,000 THE STATE OF MADAM SPEAKER, I 4958 02:56:31,001 --> 02:56:33,000 COULD NOT AGREE MORE WITH THE 4959 02:56:33,001 --> 02:56:34,000 SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY 4960 02:56:34,001 --> 02:56:36,000 REID IN HIS CONCERNS. 4961 02:56:36,001 --> 02:56:37,000 I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN ME 4962 02:56:37,001 --> 02:56:41,000 AND CONGRESSMAN SMITH IN 4963 02:56:41,001 --> 02:56:42,000 CALLING TO AN END AND DANGEUS 4964 02:56:42,001 --> 02:56:44,000 AND NEEDLESS PRACTICE OF 4965 02:56:44,001 --> 02:56:45,000 SHIPPING M.O.X. NUCLEAR WASTE 4966 02:56:45,001 --> 02:56:47,000 MATERIAL OTHERS THE OPEN 4967 02:56:47,001 --> 02:56:48,000 OCEANS. 4968 02:56:48,001 --> 02:56:49,000 I ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT 4969 02:56:49,001 --> 02:56:52,000 HOUSE RESOLUTION 402. 4970 02:56:52,001 --> 02:56:54,000 I YIELD BACK. 4971 02:56:54,001 --> 02:56:55,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4972 02:56:55,001 --> 02:56:58,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK HIS TIME. 4973 02:56:58,001 --> 02:56:59,000 UNDER THE SPEAKER'S ANNOUNCED 4974 02:56:59,001 --> 02:57:00,000 SPOIFL JANUARY 6, 2009, THE 4975 02:57:00,001 --> 02:57:02,000 CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE GENTLEMAN 4976 02:57:02,001 --> 02:57:04,000 FROM IOWA, MR. KING, FOR 60 4977 02:57:04,001 --> 02:57:05,000 MINUTES. 4978 02:57:05,001 --> 02:57:07,000 MR. KING: THANK YOU, MADAM 4979 02:57:07,001 --> 02:57:08,000 SPEAKER. 4980 02:57:08,001 --> 02:57:11,000 I APPRECIATE BEING RECOGNIZED 4981 02:57:11,001 --> 02:57:12,000 AND JOINING MY COLLEAGUES HERE 4982 02:57:12,001 --> 02:57:14,000 REPRESENTATIVES AND AN 4983 02:57:14,001 --> 02:57:15,000 OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS YOU AND 4984 02:57:15,001 --> 02:57:17,000 AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONVEY SOME 4985 02:57:17,001 --> 02:57:18,000 THOUGHTS THAT ARE GOING ON IN 4986 02:57:18,001 --> 02:57:20,000 MY MIND. 4987 02:57:20,001 --> 02:57:21,000 I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU 4988 02:57:21,001 --> 02:57:23,000 AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO 4989 02:57:23,001 --> 02:57:24,000 HEAR. 4990 02:57:24,001 --> 02:57:25,000 ONE OF THE PIECES OF SUBJECT 4991 02:57:25,001 --> 02:57:27,000 MATTER THAT'S BEEN VERY LITTLE 4992 02:57:27,001 --> 02:57:30,000 DEBATED IN THIS CONGRESS, AT 4993 02:57:30,001 --> 02:57:32,000 LEAST IN THIS NEW 111TH 4994 02:57:32,001 --> 02:57:33,000 CONGRESS, AND WAS NOT DEBATED 4995 02:57:33,001 --> 02:57:35,000 IN ANY KIND OF DEPTH WHATSOEVER 4996 02:57:35,001 --> 02:57:38,000 IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE AFTER 4997 02:57:38,001 --> 02:57:40,000 THE NOMINATIONS CAME FROM EACH, 4998 02:57:40,001 --> 02:57:41,000 THE DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN 4999 02:57:41,001 --> 02:57:43,000 PARTY IS THE ISSUE OF 5000 02:57:43,001 --> 02:57:46,000 IMMIGRATION. AND AS WE MOVE ALONG HERE 5001 02:57:46,001 --> 02:57:47,000 COMPLACENTLY, I'M AWARE THAT 5002 02:57:47,001 --> 02:57:48,000 THERE ARE PIECES BEING MOVED 5003 02:57:48,001 --> 02:57:49,000 BEHIND THE SCENES TO ARRANGE 5004 02:57:49,001 --> 02:57:53,000 THE SITUATION SO THAT THIS 5005 02:57:53,001 --> 02:57:56,000 CONGRESS COULD POTENTIALLY BE 5006 02:57:56,001 --> 02:57:57,000 TAKING UP A, I CALL IT A 5007 02:57:57,001 --> 02:57:59,000 COMPREHENSIVE AMNESTY BILL. 5008 02:57:59,001 --> 02:58:01,000 AND IF ANYONE DOUBTS WHERE I 5009 02:58:01,001 --> 02:58:02,000 STAND, MADAM SPEAKER, I AM 5010 02:58:02,001 --> 02:58:04,000 OPPOSED TO AMNESTY. 5011 02:58:04,001 --> 02:58:05,000 I'M OPPOSED TO IT IN ALL ITS 5012 02:58:05,001 --> 02:58:07,000 FORMS. 5013 02:58:07,001 --> 02:58:11,000 I LIVED THROUGH THE AMNESTY 5014 02:58:11,001 --> 02:58:13,000 BILL IN 1986, I REVERED RONALD 5015 02:58:13,001 --> 02:58:14,000 REAGAN, I STALE DO. 5016 02:58:14,001 --> 02:58:16,000 THERE WERE FEW TIMES I 5017 02:58:16,001 --> 02:58:17,000 DISAGREED WITH HIM BUT THE DAY 5018 02:58:17,001 --> 02:58:21,000 HE SIGNED THE AMNESTY BILL IN 5019 02:58:21,001 --> 02:58:22,000 1986 WAS A DAY I DISAGREED. 5020 02:58:22,001 --> 02:58:24,000 AT THAT TIME, I WAS OPERATED A 5021 02:58:24,001 --> 02:58:25,000 BUSINESS I HAD FOUNDED OVER A 5022 02:58:25,001 --> 02:58:28,000 DECADE EARLIER AND WAS 5023 02:58:28,001 --> 02:58:29,000 COMPELLED TO COMPLY WITH THE 5024 02:58:29,001 --> 02:58:32,000 FEDERAL DIRECTIVE THAT CAME 5025 02:58:32,001 --> 02:58:35,000 FROM THE 1986 AMNESTY BILL. 5026 02:58:35,001 --> 02:58:37,000 IT WAS THE I.N.S. AT THE TIME, 5027 02:58:37,001 --> 02:58:38,000 IMMIGRATION NATURALIZATION 5028 02:58:38,001 --> 02:58:40,000 SERVICE THE REQUIREMENT WAS 5029 02:58:40,001 --> 02:58:42,000 THIS -- THAT THERE WERE GOING 5030 02:58:42,001 --> 02:58:43,000 TO BE ABOUT A MILLION PEOPLE IN 5031 02:58:43,001 --> 02:58:45,000 THE UNITED STATES ILLEGALLY 5032 02:58:45,001 --> 02:58:47,000 THAT WOULD BE GRANTED AMNESTY. 5033 02:58:47,001 --> 02:58:48,000 PRESIDENT REAGAN WAS STRAIT 5034 02:58:48,001 --> 02:58:51,000 UP HONEST WITH US HE DID CALL 5035 02:58:51,001 --> 02:58:53,000 IT AMNESTY AND IT WAS. 5036 02:58:53,001 --> 02:58:54,000 IT WAS AMNESTY FOR ABOUT A 5037 02:58:54,001 --> 02:58:56,000 MILLION PEOPLE AS IT WAS 5038 02:58:56,001 --> 02:58:57,000 DESCRIBED AND THE TRADEOFF WAS 5039 02:58:57,001 --> 02:58:59,000 THIS. 5040 02:58:59,001 --> 02:59:00,000 THE CONCLUSION THAT THE 5041 02:59:00,001 --> 02:59:01,000 CONGRESS HAD COME TO AND 5042 02:59:01,001 --> 02:59:02,000 PRESIDENT REAGAN HAD COME TO 5043 02:59:02,001 --> 02:59:04,000 WAS THAT WE COULDN'T ENFORCE 5044 02:59:04,001 --> 02:59:06,000 THE LAW EFFECTIVELY ENOUGH TO 5045 02:59:06,001 --> 02:59:07,000 CLEAN UP THIS PROBLEM OF THE 5046 02:59:07,001 --> 02:59:08,000 PEOPLE ILLEGALLY IN THE UNITED 5047 02:59:08,001 --> 02:59:10,000 STATES. 5048 02:59:10,001 --> 02:59:11,000 SO BECAUSE WE COULDN'T CLEAN 5049 02:59:11,001 --> 02:59:13,000 THAT MESS UP, BY ENFORCING THE 5050 02:59:13,001 --> 02:59:15,000 LAW, WE WOULD JUST SOLVE THE 5051 02:59:15,001 --> 02:59:17,000 PROBLEM BY LEGALIZING THOSE 5052 02:59:17,001 --> 02:59:20,000 MILLION PEOPLE THAT WERE HERE 5053 02:59:20,001 --> 02:59:22,000 ILLEGALLY, GRANT THEM A 5054 02:59:22,001 --> 02:59:24,000 PERMANENT STATUS HERE IN THE 5055 02:59:24,001 --> 02:59:27,000 UNITED STES, GRANDFATHER THEM 5056 02:59:27,001 --> 02:59:28,000 IN SO TO SPEAK, BUT FM THAT 5057 02:59:28,001 --> 02:59:30,000 POINT FORWARD, MADAM SPEAKER 5058 02:59:30,001 --> 02:59:32,000 FROM THE POINT FORWARD THAT 5059 02:59:32,001 --> 02:59:33,000 RONALD REAGAN SIGNED THE 5060 02:59:33,001 --> 02:59:35,000 AMNESTY BILL OF 1986, THERE WAS 5061 02:59:35,001 --> 02:59:36,000 TO BE A MAJOR COMMITMENT ON THE 5062 02:59:36,001 --> 02:59:38,000 PART OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 5063 02:59:38,001 --> 02:59:40,000 TO ENFORCE OUR IMMIGRATION 5064 02:59:40,001 --> 02:59:41,000 LAWS. 5065 02:59:41,001 --> 02:59:42,000 UNDER THE IDEA THAT, IN ORDER 5066 02:59:42,001 --> 02:59:45,000 TO PASS AMNESTY OUT OF THIS 5067 02:59:45,001 --> 02:59:46,000 CONGRESS THERE NEED TO BE A 5068 02:59:46,001 --> 02:59:47,000 COMMITMENT TO, FROM THAT POINT 5069 02:59:47,001 --> 02:59:50,000 FORWARD, ENFORCING THE RULE OF 5070 02:59:50,001 --> 02:59:53,000 LAW. 5071 02:59:53,001 --> 02:59:54,000 AND THE ARGUMENT THAT CAME WAS 5072 02:59:54,001 --> 02:59:56,000 THIS -- THAT, WELL, WE CAN'T 5073 02:59:56,001 --> 02:59:58,000 MAKE IT WORK BECAUSE WE HAVE A 5074 02:59:58,001 --> 03:00:00,000 MILLION PEOPLE HERE, BUT FROM 5075 03:00:00,001 --> 03:00:01,000 HERE ON, WE'RE GOING TO ENFORCE 5076 03:00:01,001 --> 03:00:03,000 THE LAW, WE'RE GOING TO ENFORCE 5077 03:00:03,001 --> 03:00:05,000 THE LAW AGGRESSIVELY. 5078 03:00:05,001 --> 03:00:08,000 SO THE AMNESTY OF 1986 WAS TO 5079 03:00:08,001 --> 03:00:10,000 BE THE AMNESTY TO END ALL 5080 03:00:10,001 --> 03:00:11,000 AMNESTIES. 5081 03:00:11,001 --> 03:00:13,000 PRESIDENT REAGAN SIGNED THE 5082 03:00:13,001 --> 03:00:14,000 BILL WITH THAT IN MIND THAT 5083 03:00:14,001 --> 03:00:15,000 THERE WOULD BE ENFORCEMENT. 5084 03:00:15,001 --> 03:00:17,000 HIS ADMINISTRATION WAS 5085 03:00:17,001 --> 03:00:18,000 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DURATION OF 5086 03:00:18,001 --> 03:00:19,000 HIS TERMS IN OFFICE THE NEXT 5087 03:00:19,001 --> 03:00:20,000 COUPLE OF YEARS TO DO THE 5088 03:00:20,001 --> 03:00:22,000 ENFORCEMT. 5089 03:00:22,001 --> 03:00:25,000 AND I, SITTING THERE AS AN 5090 03:00:25,001 --> 03:00:27,000 EMPLOYER IN 1986 AND THINKING, 5091 03:00:27,001 --> 03:00:29,000 A PROMISE TO ENFORCE THE LAW 5092 03:00:29,001 --> 03:00:30,000 DOES NOT EQUATE INTO ENFORCING 5093 03:00:30,001 --> 03:00:32,000 THE LAW. 5094 03:00:32,001 --> 03:00:34,000 BUT I THINK I.N.S. WILL COME IN 5095 03:00:34,001 --> 03:00:35,000 AND ENFORCE IT AGAINST ME AS AN 5096 03:00:35,001 --> 03:00:37,000 EMPLOYER, SO I COMPLIED WITH 5097 03:00:37,001 --> 03:00:39,000 THE LAW BECAUSE, FIRST I 5098 03:00:39,001 --> 03:00:40,000 BELIEVE IN THE RULE OF LAW. 5099 03:00:40,001 --> 03:00:43,000 I THINK IT'S AN OBLIGATION TO 5100 03:00:43,001 --> 03:00:44,000 ADHERE TO THE RULE OF LAW. 5101 03:00:44,001 --> 03:00:46,000 IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE LAW, IT 5102 03:00:46,001 --> 03:00:47,000 ISN'T SOMETHING THAT AMERICANS 5103 03:00:47,001 --> 03:00:49,000 SHOULD BE DOING AS IGNORING IT. 5104 03:00:49,001 --> 03:00:51,000 WE SHOULD COMPLY WITH IT, BUT 5105 03:00:51,001 --> 03:00:53,000 IF WE DON'T LIKE IT, WE SHOULD 5106 03:00:53,001 --> 03:00:57,000 SET ABOUT TRYING TO CHANGE IT. 5107 03:00:57,001 --> 03:01:00,000 THAT'S THE PROCESS, THAT'S THE 5108 03:01:00,001 --> 03:01:01,000 WAY TO DO IT, MADAM SPEAKER. 5109 03:01:01,001 --> 03:01:03,000 I AGREED WITH THE COMPONENT OF 5110 03:01:03,001 --> 03:01:10,000 IT, THE ENFORCEMENT SIDE. 5111 03:01:10,001 --> 03:01:11,000 SO WHEN WE JOB -- WHEN WE HAD 5112 03:01:11,001 --> 03:01:14,000 JOB APPLICANTS COME INTO MY 5113 03:01:14,001 --> 03:01:15,000 OFFICE, I TOOK A COPY OF THEIR 5114 03:01:15,001 --> 03:01:18,000 DELINES, I TOOK THEIR OTHER DAY 5115 03:01:18,001 --> 03:01:19,000 TARK I BROUGHT OUT THE I-9 FILE 5116 03:01:19,001 --> 03:01:22,000 AND HAD THEM FILL OUT AN I-9 5117 03:01:22,001 --> 03:01:23,000 FORM AND WE TOOK THE COPIES OF 5118 03:01:23,001 --> 03:01:25,000 THEIR IDENTIFICATION MATERIAL 5119 03:01:25,001 --> 03:01:27,000 AND WE ATTACHED IT TO THE I-9 5120 03:01:27,001 --> 03:01:30,000 FORM AND PUT THAT IN A FILE, 5121 03:01:30,001 --> 03:01:32,000 AND TO THIS DAY, I'M NOT SURE I 5122 03:01:32,001 --> 03:01:33,000 CAN, BUT I THINK I COULD GO 5123 03:01:33,001 --> 03:01:35,000 BACK AND FIND SOME OF THOSE 5124 03:01:35,001 --> 03:01:38,000 ORIGINAL RECORDS, HOWEVER DUSTY THEY MIGHT BE. 5125 03:01:38,001 --> 03:01:39,000 I KEPT THOSE RECORDS, I KEPT IT 5126 03:01:39,001 --> 03:01:42,000 RIGHT BECAUSE I BELIEVED IN THE 5127 03:01:42,001 --> 03:01:44,000 RULE OF LAW, I BELIEVED IN THE 5128 03:01:44,001 --> 03:01:46,000 FEDERAL LAW, I BELIEVED THAT 5129 03:01:46,001 --> 03:01:47,000 GOVERNMENT, WHEN THE FEDERAL 5130 03:01:47,001 --> 03:01:49,000 GOVERNMENT TOLD AMERICANS AND 5131 03:01:49,001 --> 03:01:51,000 THAT MEANS THOSE WHO ARE HERE 5132 03:01:51,001 --> 03:01:52,000 LEGALLY AND ILLEGALLY AND THOSE 5133 03:01:52,001 --> 03:01:54,000 WHO MIGHT COME HERE, THAT THEY 5134 03:01:54,001 --> 03:01:56,000 WERE GOING TO ENFORCE 5135 03:01:56,001 --> 03:01:57,000 IMMIGRATION LAW TO THE LETTER, 5136 03:01:57,001 --> 03:01:58,000 I BELIEVED THEM. 5137 03:01:58,001 --> 03:02:02,000 AND I ADHERETO THAT 5138 03:02:02,001 --> 03:02:04,000 IMMIGRATION LAW TO THE LETTER. 5139 03:02:04,001 --> 03:02:05,000 BUT SINCE THAT TIME, THE 5140 03:02:05,001 --> 03:02:08,000 IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT WAS, 5141 03:02:08,001 --> 03:02:10,000 I'LL SAY, AS HIGH THEN FROM A 5142 03:02:10,001 --> 03:02:11,000 CONCENTRATED BASIS, AS IT HAS 5143 03:02:11,001 --> 03:02:13,000 BEEN SINCE. 5144 03:02:13,001 --> 03:02:16,000 AND SINCE 1986 THE ENFORCEMENT 5145 03:02:16,001 --> 03:02:17,000 OF AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAW HAS 5146 03:02:17,001 --> 03:02:19,000 DIMINISH OTHER THAT -- OTHER 5147 03:02:19,001 --> 03:02:20,000 THAT PERIOD OF TIME. 5148 03:02:20,001 --> 03:02:21,000 I THINK IT WAS MORE EFFECTIVE 5149 03:02:21,001 --> 03:02:23,000 UNDER RONALD REAGAN THAN IT WAS 5150 03:02:23,001 --> 03:02:24,000 UNDER THE FIRST GEORGE BUSH. 5151 03:02:24,001 --> 03:02:26,000 I THINK IT WAS MORE EFFECTIVE 5152 03:02:26,001 --> 03:02:27,000 UNDER THE FIRST GEORGE BUSH THAN 5153 03:02:27,001 --> 03:02:28,000 IT WAS UNDER BILCLINTON AND I 5154 03:02:28,001 --> 03:02:30,000 THINK IT WAS MORE EFFECTIVE 5155 03:02:30,001 --> 03:02:31,000 UNDER BILL CLINTON THAN IT WAS 5156 03:02:31,001 --> 03:02:32,000 UNDER GEORGE W. BUSH AS 5157 03:02:32,001 --> 03:02:35,000 PRESIDENT, MADAM SPEAKER. 5158 03:02:35,001 --> 03:02:36,000 AND I THINK GEORGE W. BUSH'S 5159 03:02:36,001 --> 03:02:38,000 ENFORCEMENT AT THIS POINT HAS 5160 03:02:38,001 --> 03:02:40,000 BEEN MORE EFFECTIVE THAN IT HAS 5161 03:02:40,001 --> 03:02:41,000 BEEN UNDER THIS CURRENT 5162 03:02:41,001 --> 03:02:43,000 ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT 5163 03:02:43,001 --> 03:02:47,000 OBAMA, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 5164 03:02:47,001 --> 03:02:49,000 HOMELAND SECURITY, JANET NAPOLITANO. 5165 03:02:49,001 --> 03:02:52,000 I THINK IF WOULD YOU GRAPH ON A 5166 03:02:52,001 --> 03:02:55,000 CHART THE WORK SITE RAIDS, THE 5167 03:02:55,001 --> 03:02:57,000 ACTUAL INTERDICTION OF PEOPLE 5168 03:02:57,001 --> 03:02:58,000 THAT ARE UNLAWFULLY IN THE 5169 03:02:58,001 --> 03:03:00,000 UNITED STATES, THE DEPORTATIONS, 5170 03:03:00,001 --> 03:03:03,000 THE PROSECUTIONS, THE DATA 5171 03:03:03,001 --> 03:03:04,000 THAT'S THERE ON A PROPORTIONAL 5172 03:03:04,001 --> 03:03:06,000 BASIS, I THINK YOU'D FIND WHAT I 5173 03:03:06,001 --> 03:03:08,000 DESCRIBED. IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT HAS 5174 03:03:08,001 --> 03:03:09,000 DECLINED OVER THE LAST 20-SOME 5175 03:03:09,001 --> 03:03:11,000 YEARS, PERHAPS 23 YEARS. 5176 03:03:11,001 --> 03:03:13,000 AND I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S 5177 03:03:13,001 --> 03:03:14,000 REACHED A BOTTOM AT THIS POINT, 5178 03:03:14,001 --> 03:03:16,000 I HOPE IT HAS, I HOPE IT TURNS 5179 03:03:16,001 --> 03:03:17,000 AROUND AND GOES THE OTHER WAY. 5180 03:03:17,001 --> 03:03:20,000 BUT WE HAVE LEARNED LESSON 5181 03:03:20,001 --> 03:03:22,000 FROM THE 1986 AMNESTY ACT. 5182 03:03:22,001 --> 03:03:24,000 THE AMNESTY TO END ALL 5183 03:03:24,001 --> 03:03:25,000 AMNESTIES. 5184 03:03:25,001 --> 03:03:26,000 IT WOULD BE THE LAST TIME WE 5185 03:03:26,001 --> 03:03:28,000 WOULD EVER DO THIS AND NOW FROM 5186 03:03:28,001 --> 03:03:29,000 THAT POINT FORWARD WE WERE GOING 5187 03:03:29,001 --> 03:03:32,000 TO EPS FOR IMMIGRATION LAW SO 5188 03:03:32,001 --> 03:03:33,000 THAT WE HAD AN EFFECTIVE, WE 5189 03:03:33,001 --> 03:03:35,000 CONTROL WHO COMES IN THE UNITED 5190 03:03:35,001 --> 03:03:36,000 STATES AND WHO SAY ITS OUT OF 5191 03:03:36,001 --> 03:03:37,000 THE UNITED STATES. 5192 03:03:37,001 --> 03:03:39,000 MADAM SPEAKER, YOU CAN'T BE -- 5193 03:03:39,001 --> 03:03:40,000 STAYS OUT OF THE UNITED STATES. 5194 03:03:40,001 --> 03:03:41,000 MADAM SPEAKER, YOU CAN'T BE A 5195 03:03:41,001 --> 03:03:43,000 NATION WITHOUT BORDERS, YOU 5196 03:03:43,001 --> 03:03:44,000 CAN'T CALL THEM BORDERS IF YOU 5197 03:03:44,001 --> 03:03:45,000 DON'T ENFORCE THEM, YOU CAN'T 5198 03:03:45,001 --> 03:03:47,000 CLAIM THEY'RE ENFORCED UNTIL YOU 5199 03:03:47,001 --> 03:03:49,000 -- UNLESS YOU DECIDE WHO COMES IN AND WHO STAYS OUT. 5200 03:03:49,001 --> 03:03:51,000 IF YOU DON'T -- UNLESS YOU 5201 03:03:51,001 --> 03:03:52,000 DECIDE WHAT PRODUCTS AND 5202 03:03:52,001 --> 03:03:54,000 MATERIALS COME IN AND WHICH 5203 03:03:54,001 --> 03:03:55,000 PRODUCTS STAY OUT. 5204 03:03:55,001 --> 03:03:58,000 BUT WE ARE TODAY A NATION THAT 5205 03:03:58,001 --> 03:03:59,000 HAS HAD SUCH A FLOOD OF ILLEGAL 5206 03:03:59,001 --> 03:04:02,000 IMMIGRATION AND WE'VE ACTUALLY 5207 03:04:02,001 --> 03:04:04,000 HAD AT LEAST SIX MORE AMNESTIES 5208 03:04:04,001 --> 03:04:06,000 SINCE THEN AND MINOR, SMALLER 5209 03:04:06,001 --> 03:04:07,000 ONCE THAN THE LARGE 1986 AMNESTY 5210 03:04:07,001 --> 03:04:09,000 ACT. 5211 03:04:09,001 --> 03:04:10,000 AND THIS WAS -- THEY WERE 5212 03:04:10,001 --> 03:04:12,000 GENERALLY DESIGNED TO PROVIDE 5213 03:04:12,001 --> 03:04:14,000 AMNESTY TO THE PEOPLE THAT WE 5214 03:04:14,001 --> 03:04:16,000 MISSED OR FORGET IN 1986. 5215 03:04:16,001 --> 03:04:18,000 OH, BY THE WAY, THE ONE MILLION 5216 03:04:18,001 --> 03:04:19,000 PEOPLE IN 1986 YOU TURNED OUT TO 5217 03:04:19,001 --> 03:04:21,000 BE OVER THREE MILLION PEOPLE 5218 03:04:21,001 --> 03:04:23,000 FROM THE AMNESTY ACT OF 1986 5219 03:04:23,001 --> 03:04:25,000 BECAUSE ONE IS, WE'VE ALWAYS 5220 03:04:25,001 --> 03:04:26,000 UNDERESTIMATED THE NUMBERS OF 5221 03:04:26,001 --> 03:04:28,000 ILLEGALS THAT WE HAVE IN THE 5222 03:04:28,001 --> 03:04:31,000 UNITED STATES AND THE OTHER ONE 5223 03:04:31,001 --> 03:04:32,000 IS THAT EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS A 5224 03:04:32,001 --> 03:04:34,000 DIRECT LINE CUTOFF DATE, IF YOU 5225 03:04:34,001 --> 03:04:35,000 WERE IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE 5226 03:04:35,001 --> 03:04:37,000 A PARTICULAR DATE WOULD YOU 5227 03:04:37,001 --> 03:04:38,000 QUALIFY, IF YOU ARRIVED HERE 5228 03:04:38,001 --> 03:04:40,000 ILLEGALLY AFTER THAT DATE, YOU 5229 03:04:40,001 --> 03:04:41,000 DID NOT. 5230 03:04:41,001 --> 03:04:42,000 WELL, THERE WAS A MASSIVE AMOUNT 5231 03:04:42,001 --> 03:04:43,000 OF FRAUD. 5232 03:04:43,001 --> 03:04:45,000 THERE WAS AN ENTIRE INDUSTRY 5233 03:04:45,001 --> 03:04:46,000 THAT WAS DEVELOPED THAT CAME 5234 03:04:46,001 --> 03:04:48,000 ABOUT IN ORDER TO DEFRAUD THE 5235 03:04:48,001 --> 03:04:51,000 1986 AMNESTY ACT. 5236 03:04:51,001 --> 03:04:53,000 SO OUR ONE MILLION, WHICH MAYBE 5237 03:04:53,001 --> 03:04:55,000 WAS TOO LOW A NUMBER IN ITS 5238 03:04:55,001 --> 03:04:56,000 ESTIMATE IN THE FIRST PLACE, 5239 03:04:56,001 --> 03:04:58,000 GREW TO THREE MILLION BECAUSE IT 5240 03:04:58,001 --> 03:04:59,000 WAS UNDERESTIMATED AND IT 5241 03:04:59,001 --> 03:05:01,000 CERTAINLY DIDN'T CONSIDER HOW 5242 03:05:01,001 --> 03:05:03,000 MUCH FRAUD THERE WOULD BE. 5243 03:05:03,001 --> 03:05:05,000 TODAY WE HAVE A LARGE BODY OF 5244 03:05:05,001 --> 03:05:07,000 PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES, 5245 03:05:07,001 --> 03:05:10,000 MADAM SPEAKER, THAT ARE LOOKING 5246 03:05:10,001 --> 03:05:12,000 SIMPLY AT THIS NATION FROM THE 5247 03:05:12,001 --> 03:05:13,000 STANDPOINT OF WHAT AFFECTS THEIR 5248 03:05:13,001 --> 03:05:15,000 BOTTLE AM LINE, WHAT AFFECTS 5249 03:05:15,001 --> 03:05:17,000 THEIR LIFE, WHAT AFFECTS THE 5250 03:05:17,001 --> 03:05:18,000 SAFETY AND SECURITY OF THEM IN 5251 03:05:18,001 --> 03:05:19,000 THEIR HONE HOUSEHOLDS, HOW DOES 5252 03:05:19,001 --> 03:05:22,000 IT EFFECT THEIR INVESTMENTS, 5253 03:05:22,001 --> 03:05:23,000 THEIR PROFITABILITY AND THEIR 5254 03:05:23,001 --> 03:05:25,000 FUTURES? 5255 03:05:25,001 --> 03:05:26,000 AND WE HAVE A LARGE GROUP OF 5256 03:05:26,001 --> 03:05:28,000 PEOPLE HERE IN THIS CONGRESS 5257 03:05:28,001 --> 03:05:30,000 THAT ARE DOING A POLITICAL 5258 03:05:30,001 --> 03:05:31,000 CALCULATION ON WHAT KIND OF 5259 03:05:31,001 --> 03:05:34,000 POLITICAL WER DOES IT GIVE 5260 03:05:34,001 --> 03:05:35,000 THEM IF WE WOULD JUST GRANT 5261 03:05:35,001 --> 03:05:39,000 AMNESTY TO THE 12 MILLION OR 20 5262 03:05:39,001 --> 03:05:41,000 MILLION OR MORE THAT ARE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY. 5263 03:05:41,001 --> 03:05:43,000 SOME OF THOSE THAT WERE PROMISED 5264 03:05:43,001 --> 03:05:44,000 THEY WOULD COME TO THE STREETS 5265 03:05:44,001 --> 03:05:45,000 LAST SUNDAY AND NOT MANY OF THEM 5266 03:05:45,001 --> 03:05:46,000 SHOWED UP. 5267 03:05:46,001 --> 03:05:48,000 THOSE THAT PROMISED THEY'LL GO 5268 03:05:48,001 --> 03:05:49,000 TO THE STREETS TO DEMONSTRATE 5269 03:05:49,001 --> 03:05:50,000 NEXT SUNDAY AND WE'LL SEE HOW 5270 03:05:50,001 --> 03:05:52,000 MANY OF THEM WILL SHOW UP. 5271 03:05:52,001 --> 03:05:54,000 BUT ONCE YOU GRANT AMNESTY AND 5272 03:05:54,001 --> 03:05:57,000 YOU SAY YOU'LL NEVER DO IT 5273 03:05:57,001 --> 03:05:58,000 AGAIN, MADAM SPEAKER, YOU LOSE 5274 03:05:58,001 --> 03:06:00,000 YOUR VIRTUE. 5275 03:06:00,001 --> 03:06:01,000 WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR VIRTUE YOU 5276 03:06:01,001 --> 03:06:03,000 CAN'T GET IT BACK. 5277 03:06:03,001 --> 03:06:04,000 YOU CAN'T SAY IN 1986, WELL, I 5278 03:06:04,001 --> 03:06:05,000 DON'T KNOW HOW TO SOLVE THIS 5279 03:06:05,001 --> 03:06:07,000 PROBLEM OF A MILLION ILLEGAL 5280 03:06:07,001 --> 03:06:08,000 PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES, SO 5281 03:06:08,001 --> 03:06:09,000 I'M JUST GOING TO LEGALIZE THEM 5282 03:06:09,001 --> 03:06:11,000 AND THAT SOLVES THE PROBLEM. 5283 03:06:11,001 --> 03:06:12,000 I NO LONGER HAVE ANY ILLEGALS IN 5284 03:06:12,001 --> 03:06:14,000 AMERICA. 5285 03:06:14,001 --> 03:06:16,000 BUT I'M NEVER DOING IT AGAIN. 5286 03:06:16,001 --> 03:06:18,000 AND I GUESS I'M THINKING OF SOME 5287 03:06:18,001 --> 03:06:20,000 IMANDS OF HOW VIRTUE GETS 5288 03:06:20,001 --> 03:06:24,000 COMPROMISED -- IMANDS OF HOW 5289 03:06:24,001 --> 03:06:28,000 VIRTUE GETS -- IMAGE OF HOW 5290 03:06:28,001 --> 03:06:29,000 VIRTUE GETS COMPROMISED. 5291 03:06:29,001 --> 03:06:31,000 LIKE WHEN SOMEONE GETS CAUGHT 5292 03:06:31,001 --> 03:06:33,000 STEALING A CANDY BAR, AND THEY 5293 03:06:33,001 --> 03:06:34,000 SAY, I'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN, 5294 03:06:34,001 --> 03:06:35,000 WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY'LL DO IT 5295 03:06:35,001 --> 03:06:37,000 AGAIN? 5296 03:06:37,001 --> 03:06:39,000 HOW LIKELY IS IT THAT SOMEONE 5297 03:06:39,001 --> 03:06:40,000 WHO HAS TOLD LIES ALL OF A 5298 03:06:40,001 --> 03:06:42,000 SUDDEN WILL DECIDE, I'M GOING TO 5299 03:06:42,001 --> 03:06:44,000 BE VIRTUAL WHITE HOUSE NOW? 5300 03:06:44,001 --> 03:06:46,000 PEOPLE DO HAVE EPIPNY -- 5301 03:06:46,001 --> 03:06:47,000 EPIPHANIES BUT CLASSES OF 5302 03:06:47,001 --> 03:06:50,000 PEOPLE, NATIONALITIES AND 5303 03:06:50,001 --> 03:06:51,000 CULTURES DON'T HAVE EPIPHANIES. 5304 03:06:51,001 --> 03:06:53,000 THEY REACT TO REAL EXTERNAL 5305 03:06:53,001 --> 03:06:54,000 STIMULI. 5306 03:06:54,001 --> 03:06:56,000 THEY REACT TO ENFORCEMENT AT THE 5307 03:06:56,001 --> 03:06:57,000 BORDER, THEY REACT TO 5308 03:06:57,001 --> 03:06:59,000 ENFORCEMENT IN THE WORK SITE. 5309 03:06:59,001 --> 03:07:00,000 THEY REACT TO A CUURE AND A 5310 03:07:00,001 --> 03:07:02,000 CIVILIZATION THAT EITHER ADHERES 5311 03:07:02,001 --> 03:07:04,000 TO THE RULE OF LAW OR IT DOESN'T. 5312 03:07:04,001 --> 03:07:07,000 AND ONE OF THE GREAT STRENGTHS 5313 03:07:07,001 --> 03:07:08,000 OF AMERICA HAS BEEN, HAS ALWAYS 5314 03:07:08,001 --> 03:07:11,000 EN, THAT WE HAD GREAT RESPECT 5315 03:07:11,001 --> 03:07:13,000 FOR THE RULE OF LAW. 5316 03:07:13,001 --> 03:07:17,000 AND THAT EVERYONE WAS SUBJECT TO 5317 03:07:17,001 --> 03:07:19,000 EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW AND 5318 03:07:19,001 --> 03:07:20,000 THAT WE ENFORCE THE LAW WITHOUT 5319 03:07:20,001 --> 03:07:21,000 REGARD TO WHETHER YOU WERE A 5320 03:07:21,001 --> 03:07:24,000 PRINCE OR A PAUPER. 5321 03:07:24,001 --> 03:07:27,000 WE REJECTED PRINCES AND ROYALTY HERE IN THIS COUNTRY. 5322 03:07:27,001 --> 03:07:29,000 WE WANT EVERYONE TO HAVE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY. 5323 03:07:29,001 --> 03:07:31,000 BUT WE HAVE TO DECIDE WHO COMES 5324 03:07:31,001 --> 03:07:33,000 IN AND WHO DOESN'T COME IN. 5325 03:07:33,001 --> 03:07:34,000 WE HAVE THE MOST GENEROUS 5326 03:07:34,001 --> 03:07:35,000 IMMIGRATION POLICY ANYWHERE IN 5327 03:07:35,001 --> 03:07:37,000 THE WORLD. 5328 03:07:37,001 --> 03:07:39,000 THERE IS NO COUNTRY OUT THERE 5329 03:07:39,001 --> 03:07:40,000 THAT CAN MATCH THEIR IMMIGRATION 5330 03:07:40,001 --> 03:07:42,000 POLICY UP TO THE UNITED STATES 5331 03:07:42,001 --> 03:07:43,000 AND ARGUE THAT THEIR BORDERS ARE 5332 03:07:43,001 --> 03:07:45,000 MORE OPEN, THAT THEY'RE MORE 5333 03:07:45,001 --> 03:07:46,000 ACCOMMODATING. 5334 03:07:46,001 --> 03:07:48,000 NO ONE TAKES IN MORE REFUGEES. 5335 03:07:48,001 --> 03:07:52,000 NO ONE PROVIDES MORE ASYLUM. 5336 03:07:52,001 --> 03:07:54,000 NO ONE ALLOWS IN MORE RAW 5337 03:07:54,001 --> 03:07:55,000 NUMBERS OF LEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND 5338 03:07:55,001 --> 03:07:58,000 NO ONE DOES SO IN A GREATER 5339 03:07:58,001 --> 03:07:59,000 PERCENTAGE OF THEIR POPULATION 5340 03:07:59,001 --> 03:08:00,000 THAN WE DO HERE IN THE UNITED 5341 03:08:00,001 --> 03:08:02,000 STATES OF AMERICA. 5342 03:08:02,001 --> 03:08:04,000 THAT'S JUST THE LEGAL SIDE. 5343 03:08:04,001 --> 03:08:05,000 NO ONE'S BETTER THAN WE ARE. 5344 03:08:05,001 --> 03:08:06,000 THE REST OF THE WORLD CRITICIZES 5345 03:08:06,001 --> 03:08:08,000 US. 5346 03:08:08,001 --> 03:08:10,000 BUT NONE OF THEM CAN MATCH UP TO 5347 03:08:10,001 --> 03:08:12,000 THE UNITED STATES FOR BEING 5348 03:08:12,001 --> 03:08:16,000 GENEROUS IN PROVIDING LEGAL 5349 03:08:16,001 --> 03:08:17,000 ACCESS TO THIS GREAT NATION OF 5350 03:08:17,001 --> 03:08:18,000 LIBERTY, THE UNITED STATES OF 5351 03:08:18,001 --> 03:08:20,000 AMERICA. 5352 03:08:20,001 --> 03:08:21,000 AND WHILE THAT'S GOING ON, LEGAL 5353 03:08:21,001 --> 03:08:24,000 IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES 5354 03:08:24,001 --> 03:08:28,000 THAT RS ABOUT 1.1 MILLION TO 5355 03:08:28,001 --> 03:08:29,000 1.3 MILLION A YEAR, A HUGE 5356 03:08:29,001 --> 03:08:32,000 NUMBER, 1.1 MILLION TO 1.2 5357 03:08:32,001 --> 03:08:34,000 MILLION A YEAR ILLEGAL 5358 03:08:34,001 --> 03:08:36,000 IMMIGRATION AND THE REASON I 5359 03:08:36,001 --> 03:08:37,000 HEAR IS THE LINES ARE TOO LONG. 5360 03:08:37,001 --> 03:08:40,000 THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN 5361 03:08:40,001 --> 03:08:41,000 IN LINE FOR 10 YEARS OR 12 YEARS 5362 03:08:41,001 --> 03:08:42,000 WANTING TO COME INTO THE UNITED 5363 03:08:42,001 --> 03:08:43,000 STATES LEGALLY AND WE HAVE TO DO 5364 03:08:43,001 --> 03:08:45,000 METHING TO SHORTEN THESE 5365 03:08:45,001 --> 03:08:46,000 LINES. 5366 03:08:46,001 --> 03:08:47,000 WELL, THERE ARE SOME SOLUTIONS 5367 03:08:47,001 --> 03:08:48,000 TO THAT, I PRESUME, MADAM 5368 03:08:48,001 --> 03:08:50,000 SPEAKER. 5369 03:08:50,001 --> 03:08:51,000 AND IF YOUR IDEA WAS ONLY TO 5370 03:08:51,001 --> 03:08:52,000 SHORT -- SHORTEN THE LINE SO 5371 03:08:52,001 --> 03:08:54,000 PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE TO WAIT TO 5372 03:08:54,001 --> 03:08:55,000 COME INTO THE UNITED STATES, YOU 5373 03:08:55,001 --> 03:08:56,000 COULD OPEN UP THE DOOR WIDER AND 5374 03:08:56,001 --> 03:08:58,000 IN WOULD COME THE PEOPLE THAT 5375 03:08:58,001 --> 03:08:59,000 ARE IN THE LINE. 5376 03:08:59,001 --> 03:09:00,000 IF YOU DO THAT, MORE PEOPLE WILL 5377 03:09:00,001 --> 03:09:01,000 GET IN THE LINE. 5378 03:09:01,001 --> 03:09:04,000 BUT LET'S JUST LOOK AT IT -- 5379 03:09:04,001 --> 03:09:06,000 LET'S THINK OF A LINE OF -- 5380 03:09:06,001 --> 03:09:09,000 LET'S CALL IT 1. MILLION PEOPLE 5381 03:09:09,001 --> 03:09:11,000 LINED UP TO 5382 03:09:11,001 --> 03:09:12,000 STATES THROUGH THIS DOOR, MADAM 5383 03:09:12,001 --> 03:09:14,000 SPEAKER. 5384 03:09:14,001 --> 03:09:15,000 AND WE PROCESS THEIR PAPERWORK, 5385 03:09:15,001 --> 03:09:16,000 WE DO BACKGROUND CHECKS ON THEM, 5386 03:09:16,001 --> 03:09:18,000 WE EVALUATE WHETHER THEY'RE THE 5387 03:09:18,001 --> 03:09:19,000 KIND OF PEOPLE WE WANT TO COME 5388 03:09:19,001 --> 03:09:21,000 HERE OR NOT, BY FORMULA, NOT SO 5389 03:09:21,001 --> 03:09:24,000 MUCH BY ANALYSIS AND THEY GET TO 5390 03:09:24,001 --> 03:09:25,000 BRININ PEOPLE ON THE FAMILY 5391 03:09:25,001 --> 03:09:27,000 REUNIFICATION PLAN. 5392 03:09:27,001 --> 03:09:30,000 AND ONE PERSON MIGHT BRING IN 5393 03:09:30,001 --> 03:09:31,000 MORE THAN 250 IN THE FAMILY 5394 03:09:31,001 --> 03:09:34,000 REUNIFICATION PLAN AND THAT 5395 03:09:34,001 --> 03:09:35,000 FORMULA GOES ON AND ON AND ON. 5396 03:09:35,001 --> 03:09:36,000 BUT LET'S JUST IMAGINE THAT 5397 03:09:36,001 --> 03:09:38,000 THERE ARE 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE 5398 03:09:38,001 --> 03:09:39,000 LINED UP OUTSIDE THIS DOOR AND 5399 03:09:39,001 --> 03:09:41,000 ONCE A YEAR WE OPEN THE DOOR AND 5400 03:09:41,001 --> 03:09:42,000 WE LET THEM ALL IN. 5401 03:09:42,001 --> 03:09:44,000 THEN WE CLOSE THE DOOR WHEN WE 5402 03:09:44,001 --> 03:09:46,000 GET TO 1.2 MILLION. 5403 03:09:46,001 --> 03:09:47,000 THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE TO BRING 5404 03:09:47,001 --> 03:09:48,000 IN THE -- INTO THE UNITED STATES 5405 03:09:48,001 --> 03:09:49,000 OF AMERICA. 5406 03:09:49,001 --> 03:09:53,000 AND IT'S A HUGE -- IT'S A HUGE 5407 03:09:53,001 --> 03:09:54,000 ENDEAVOR TO SEEK TO ASSIMILATE 5408 03:09:54,001 --> 03:09:56,000 AND ADAPT OUR ECONOMY TO THAT 5409 03:09:56,001 --> 03:09:57,000 MANY PEOPLE COMING INTO THIS 5410 03:09:57,001 --> 03:09:59,000 COUNTRY. 5411 03:09:59,001 --> 03:10:00,000 WELL, ALL THAT'S GOING ON. 5412 03:10:00,001 --> 03:10:01,000 OUR BIRTHVATE A LITTLE BIT TO 5413 03:10:01,001 --> 03:10:02,000 THE PLUS SIDE. 5414 03:10:02,001 --> 03:10:05,000 SO EVERY TIME WE LOSE SOMEBODY, 5415 03:10:05,001 --> 03:10:06,000 THERE'S MORE THAN ONE BABY BORN. 5416 03:10:06,001 --> 03:10:07,000 AND THAT'S A GOOD THING. 5417 03:10:07,001 --> 03:10:11,000 I WANT TO SEE OUR POPULATION 5418 03:10:11,001 --> 03:10:12,000 GROW ON A NATURAL BASIS AND SO 5419 03:10:12,001 --> 03:10:14,000 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE COMING IN THE 5420 03:10:14,001 --> 03:10:15,000 UNITED STATES LEGALLY, BUT 5421 03:10:15,001 --> 03:10:17,000 THERE'S ANOTHER LINEUP OUT THERE 5422 03:10:17,001 --> 03:10:19,000 THAT EVERY YEAR WE OPEN THE 5423 03:10:19,001 --> 03:10:22,000 DOOR, IN COME 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE BUT INTO THE LINE A FEW MORE 5424 03:10:22,001 --> 03:10:23,000 PEOPLE GET INTO THE LINE THAT'S 5425 03:10:23,001 --> 03:10:25,000 OUTSIDE AND SO THERE ARE NOT IN 5426 03:10:25,001 --> 03:10:26,000 REAL NUMBERS, BUT PRACTICALLY 5427 03:10:26,001 --> 03:10:28,000 SPEAKING, ROUGHLY A DECADE'S 5428 03:10:28,001 --> 03:10:30,000 SUPPLY OF PEOPLE OUT THERE LINED 5429 03:10:30,001 --> 03:10:35,000 UP WANTING TO COME INTO THE 5430 03:10:35,001 --> 03:10:37,000 UNITED STATES THIS IS GOING ON, 5431 03:10:37,001 --> 03:10:40,000 WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY 11,000 5432 03:10:40,001 --> 03:10:42,000 ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSERS SNEAKING 5433 03:10:42,001 --> 03:10:43,000 INTO THE UNITED STATES ON 5434 03:10:43,001 --> 03:10:45,000 AVERAGE ON A GIVEN NIGHT, 5435 03:10:45,001 --> 03:10:47,000 11,000. 5436 03:10:47,001 --> 03:10:48,000 ROUGHLY FOUR MILLION A YEAR 5437 03:10:48,001 --> 03:10:49,000 ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS COMING 5438 03:10:49,001 --> 03:10:51,000 INTO THE UNITED STATES. 5439 03:10:51,001 --> 03:10:52,000 FOUR MILLION. 5440 03:10:52,001 --> 03:10:54,000 11,000 A NIGHT. 5441 03:10:54,001 --> 03:10:57,000 TWICE THE SIZE OF SANTA ANA'S 5442 03:10:57,001 --> 03:10:59,000 ARMY THAT INVADED TEXAS, TWICE 5443 03:10:59,001 --> 03:11:00,000 THE SIZE, EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. 5444 03:11:00,001 --> 03:11:02,000 COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES. 5445 03:11:02,001 --> 03:11:05,000 SOME GO BACK ON THEIR OWN. 5446 03:11:05,001 --> 03:11:06,000 SOME STAY AND SO THE RAW NET 5447 03:11:06,001 --> 03:11:09,000 NUMBERS IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAD 5448 03:11:09,001 --> 03:11:12,000 A LITTLE TROUBLE AGREEING ON WHAT THAT MIGHT BE. 5449 03:11:12,001 --> 03:11:13,000 BUT FOUR MILLION ILLEGAL BORDER 5450 03:11:13,001 --> 03:11:15,000 CROSSINGS COMING INTO THE UNITED 5451 03:11:15,001 --> 03:11:16,000 STATES. 5452 03:11:16,001 --> 03:11:17,000 1.2 MILLION LEGAL ENTRANTS INTO 5453 03:11:17,001 --> 03:11:19,000 THE UNITED STATES. 5454 03:11:19,001 --> 03:11:21,000 THAT'S THEATIO THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH. 5455 03:11:21,001 --> 03:11:23,000 IF WE CAN SHUT OFF THE BLEEDING 5456 03:11:23,001 --> 03:11:25,000 AT THE BORDER, SHUT OFF THE 5457 03:11:25,001 --> 03:11:27,000 BLEEDING INTO THE UNITED STATES 5458 03:11:27,001 --> 03:11:28,000 THAT'S COMING IN THROUGH ALL OF 5459 03:11:28,001 --> 03:11:30,000 THE PORTS OF EPTRY THAT WE HAVE 5460 03:11:30,001 --> 03:11:31,000 IN THE UNITED STATES -- ENTRY 5461 03:11:31,001 --> 03:11:32,000 THAT WE HAVE IN THE UNITED 5462 03:11:32,001 --> 03:11:34,000 STATES, AND SEAL THAT DOWN, WEEK 5463 03:11:34,001 --> 03:11:36,000 OF ALREADY CREATED SLOTS FOR 5464 03:11:36,001 --> 03:11:38,000 OTHER FOLKS THAT ASSIMILATE INTO 5465 03:11:38,001 --> 03:11:40,000 THE SOCIETY AND ASSIMILATE INTO 5466 03:11:40,001 --> 03:11:42,000 THIS CULTURE. FOUR MILLION PEOPLE A YEAR 5467 03:11:42,001 --> 03:11:43,000 ILLEGALLY COMING INTO THE UNITED 5468 03:11:43,001 --> 03:11:45,000 STATES. 5469 03:11:45,001 --> 03:11:46,000 1.2 MILLION COMING IN LEGALLY. 5470 03:11:46,001 --> 03:11:47,000 AND THEY ARE THE ARGUMENT IS, 5471 03:11:47,001 --> 03:11:49,000 WELL, LET'S GO AHEAD AND 5472 03:11:49,001 --> 03:11:51,000 LEGALIZE ALL OF THESE PEOPLE. 5473 03:11:51,001 --> 03:11:53,000 SO MAYBE THERE ARE -- THE OTHER 5474 03:11:53,001 --> 03:11:54,000 SIDE WILL ALLOW 12 MILLION AS AN 5475 03:11:54,001 --> 03:11:55,000 ESTIMATE. 5476 03:11:55,001 --> 03:11:57,000 BUT THEY'VE BEEN USING 12 5477 03:11:57,001 --> 03:11:58,000 MILLION ILLEGALS IN AMERICA FOR 5478 03:11:58,001 --> 03:11:59,000 EVERY YEAR SINCE I'VE BEEN IN 5479 03:11:59,001 --> 03:12:00,000 THIS CONGRESS AND THIS IS THE 5480 03:12:00,001 --> 03:12:03,000 SECRETARY OF NT. 5481 03:12:03,001 --> 03:12:04,000 NOW YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE -- 5482 03:12:04,001 --> 03:12:06,000 SEVENTH. 5483 03:12:06,001 --> 03:12:07,000 NOW YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A 5484 03:12:07,001 --> 03:12:08,000 ROCKET SURGEON TO FIGURE THIS 5485 03:12:08,001 --> 03:12:10,000 OUT. 5486 03:12:10,001 --> 03:12:11,000 AND THAT'S NOT A MISTAKE. 5487 03:12:11,001 --> 03:12:12,000 YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A RKET 5488 03:12:12,001 --> 03:12:14,000 SURGEON TO FIGURE OUT THAT IF 5489 03:12:14,001 --> 03:12:15,000 YOU'VE GOT FOUR MILLION PEOPLE 5490 03:12:15,001 --> 03:12:16,000 COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES 5491 03:12:16,001 --> 03:12:18,000 ILLEGALLY EVERY YEAR AND DO YOU 5492 03:12:18,001 --> 03:12:19,000 THAT FOR SEVEN YEARS IN A ROW, 5493 03:12:19,001 --> 03:12:21,000 THE MATH ON THAT TURNS OUT TO BE 5494 03:12:21,001 --> 03:12:23,000 ABOUT, OH, 28 MILLION. 5495 03:12:23,001 --> 03:12:25,000 SOME GO BACK HOME, SOME DIE. 5496 03:12:25,001 --> 03:12:28,000 YES, BUT FOR 12 MILLION ILLEGALS 5497 03:12:28,001 --> 03:12:32,000 TO HAVE BEEN HERE IN 2002 AND 5498 03:12:32,001 --> 03:12:34,000 ONLY 12 MILLION ILLEGALS TO BE 5499 03:12:34,001 --> 03:12:36,000 HERE IN 2009 AND HAVE FOUR 5500 03:12:36,001 --> 03:12:37,000 MILLION OF THEM COMING IN EVERY 5501 03:12:37,001 --> 03:12:38,000 SINGLE YEAR DEFIES ANYBODY'S 5502 03:12:38,001 --> 03:12:40,000 LOGIC TO THINK THAT TH 12 5503 03:12:40,001 --> 03:12:42,000 MILLION IS A STATIC NUMBER. 5504 03:12:42,001 --> 03:12:45,000 IT HAS TO HAVE GROWN OR IF FOR 5505 03:12:45,001 --> 03:12:46,000 SOME REASON THAT I DON'T 5506 03:12:46,001 --> 03:12:48,000 UNDERSTAND IT'S NOT GROWING, I'D 5507 03:12:48,001 --> 03:12:49,000 LIKE TO HAVE SOMEBODY EXPLAIN TO 5508 03:12:49,001 --> 03:12:51,000 ME HOW WE GOT TO THE 12 MILLION 5509 03:12:51,001 --> 03:12:52,000 IN THE FIRST PLACE? 5510 03:12:52,001 --> 03:12:55,000 WHAT RATIO? 5511 03:12:55,001 --> 03:12:56,000 THE REALITY IS, WE KNOW, MADAM 5512 03:12:56,001 --> 03:12:57,000 SPEAKER, THE NUMBER'S MORE THAN 5513 03:12:57,001 --> 03:12:58,000 12 MILLION. 5514 03:12:58,001 --> 03:13:00,000 IT'S VERY LIKELY MORE THAN 20 5515 03:13:00,001 --> 03:13:01,000 MILLION. 5516 03:13:01,001 --> 03:13:02,000 IT COULD BE 30ILLION. 5517 03:13:02,001 --> 03:13:03,000 BUT I'M HEARING PEOPLE ON THE 5518 03:13:03,001 --> 03:13:05,000 OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE IN 5519 03:13:05,001 --> 03:13:06,000 PARTICULAR ARGUE THAT, WELL, WE 5520 03:13:06,001 --> 03:13:08,000 CAN SOLVE THIS ILLEGAL 5521 03:13:08,001 --> 03:13:10,000 IMMIGRATION PROBLEM. 5522 03:13:10,001 --> 03:13:11,000 WE'LL JUST GRANT THEM, DON'T 5523 03:13:11,001 --> 03:13:12,000 CALL IT AMNESTY, WE'LL REDEFINE 5524 03:13:12,001 --> 03:13:14,000 IT AND CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE. 5525 03:13:14,001 --> 03:13:15,000 THAT, MADAM SPEAKER, WAS AN 5526 03:13:15,001 --> 03:13:17,000 INTENSE DEBATE I HAD WITH KARL 5527 03:13:17,001 --> 03:13:18,000 ROVE ON -- AND I ADVISED HIM, 5528 03:13:18,001 --> 03:13:20,000 YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REDEFINE 5529 03:13:20,001 --> 03:13:24,000 THE TERM AMNESTY. 5530 03:13:24,001 --> 03:13:25,000 IT IS AMNESTY IF YOU REDUCE THE 5531 03:13:25,001 --> 03:13:26,000 PENALTY. 5532 03:13:26,001 --> 03:13:27,000 IT'S AMNESTY IF YOU DON'T APPLY 5533 03:13:27,001 --> 03:13:29,000 THE PENALTY THAT APPLIES AT THE 5534 03:13:29,001 --> 03:13:31,000 TIME THEY COMMITTED THE CRIME. 5535 03:13:31,001 --> 03:13:32,000 BUT HIS ARGUMENT WAS, WELL, WHAT 5536 03:13:32,001 --> 03:13:34,000 IF WE REQUIRE THEM TO PAY A FINE 5537 03:13:34,001 --> 03:13:37,000 AND LEARN ENGLISH? 5538 03:13:37,001 --> 03:13:40,000 IF THEY PAID A $1,000 FINE, I 5539 03:13:40,001 --> 03:13:42,000 THINK WE'RE UP TO A $1,500 FINE 5540 03:13:42,001 --> 03:13:44,000 AND IF THEY LEARNED ENGLISH OR 5541 03:13:44,001 --> 03:13:45,000 TOOK ENGLISH CLASS THAT WE PAID 5542 03:13:45,001 --> 03:13:46,000 FOR WITH TAXPAYER DOLLARS, 5543 03:13:46,001 --> 03:13:48,000 WOULDN'T YOU THEN SAY THE NOT 5544 03:13:48,001 --> 03:13:50,000 AMNESTY? 5545 03:13:50,001 --> 03:13:51,000 BECAUSE AFTER ALL, SOME WOULD 5546 03:13:51,001 --> 03:13:52,000 EVEN PAY SOME OF THEIR BACK 5547 03:13:52,001 --> 03:13:53,000 TAXES BY THE LEGISLATION THAT 5548 03:13:53,001 --> 03:13:55,000 THEY OFFERED. 5549 03:13:55,001 --> 03:13:57,000 THEY'D BE ABLE TO CHOOSE THREE 5550 03:13:57,001 --> 03:13:58,000 OUT OF THE LAST FIVE YEARS THAT 5551 03:13:58,001 --> 03:13:59,000 THEY PAID THEIR BACK TAXES. 5552 03:13:59,001 --> 03:14:01,000 WHAT AMERICAN CITIZEN WOULDN'T 5553 03:14:01,001 --> 03:14:02,000 WANT TO HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY, 5554 03:14:02,001 --> 03:14:05,000 TO LOOK BACK OVER THE LAST FIVE 5555 03:14:05,001 --> 03:14:06,000 YEARS AND SKIP THE BEST TWO 5556 03:14:06,001 --> 03:14:08,000 YEARS YOU HAD AND DECIDE NOT TO 5557 03:14:08,001 --> 03:14:09,000 PAY YOUR TAXES IN THOSE TWO 5558 03:14:09,001 --> 03:14:12,000 YEARS AND PUT THE CASH IN THE 5559 03:14:12,001 --> 03:14:14,000 BANK, STICK IT INTO THIS GIANT 5560 03:14:14,001 --> 03:14:15,000 A.T.M. THAT THEY VIEW AMERICA 5561 03:14:15,001 --> 03:14:17,000 HAS AND JUST SELECT THE THREE 5562 03:14:17,001 --> 03:14:18,000 WORST YEARS OUT OF THE LAST 5563 03:14:18,001 --> 03:14:19,000 FIVE? 5564 03:14:19,001 --> 03:14:21,000 PAY THE TAXES ON THAT? 5565 03:14:21,001 --> 03:14:22,000 HAVE SOMEBODY PAY FOR YOUR 5566 03:14:22,001 --> 03:14:23,000 CLASSES TO GO LEARN ENGLISH AND 5567 03:14:23,001 --> 03:14:26,000 THEN OUT OF THE TAX SAVINGS YOU 5568 03:14:26,001 --> 03:14:29,000 GET, YOU PAY A $15 U.N. FINE IN 5569 03:14:29,001 --> 03:14:32,000 ORDER TO GET AMNESTY CONSCIOUS 5570 03:14:32,001 --> 03:14:33,000 $1,500 FINE IN ORDER TO GET 5571 03:14:33,001 --> 03:14:34,000 AMNESTY? 5572 03:14:34,001 --> 03:14:36,000 MADAM SPEAKER, THIS IS A 5573 03:14:36,001 --> 03:14:37,000 BREATHTAKING CONCEPT FOR ME. 5574 03:14:37,001 --> 03:14:40,000 I CAN'T GET THERE. 5575 03:14:40,001 --> 03:14:42,000 I CAN'T GET MY LOGICAL MIND 5576 03:14:42,001 --> 03:14:45,000 AROUND THE IDEA EITHER THAT WE 5577 03:14:45,001 --> 03:14:46,000 COULD SOLVE THIS ILLEGAL PROBLEM 5578 03:14:46,001 --> 03:14:49,000 AND THE CRIME AND THE DRUG 5579 03:14:49,001 --> 03:14:50,000 SMUGGLING THAT'S ASSOCIATED WITH 5580 03:14:50,001 --> 03:14:52,000 IT IF WE WOULD JUST LEGALIZE 5581 03:14:52,001 --> 03:14:54,000 PEOPLE AND KEEP MAKING THIS 5582 03:14:54,001 --> 03:14:56,000 ARGUMENT AND I HAVE YET TO FIND 5583 03:14:56,001 --> 03:14:57,000 ANYBODY WHO CAN SUSTAIN THE 5584 03:14:57,001 --> 03:14:58,000 ARGUMENT PAST THE OPENING 5585 03:14:58,001 --> 03:15:01,000 STATEMENT OF, WE CAN SOLVE THIS 5586 03:15:01,001 --> 03:15:02,000 PROBLEM, AT LEAST IF WE LEGALIZE 5587 03:15:02,001 --> 03:15:03,000 THEM, WE'LL KNOW WHO'S HERE. 5588 03:15:03,001 --> 03:15:05,000 THEY CAN'T GET TO THE SECOND 5589 03:15:05,001 --> 03:15:06,000 PHASE OF THAT ANALYSIS. 5590 03:15:06,001 --> 03:15:08,000 HOW WOULD YOU KNOW WHO'S HERE? 5591 03:15:08,001 --> 03:15:09,000 HOW WOULD YOU KNOW THEY TOLD YOU 5592 03:15:09,001 --> 03:15:10,000 THE TRUTH IN THE FIRST PLACE 5593 03:15:10,001 --> 03:15:12,000 WHEN YOU GRANTED THEM AMNESTY? 5594 03:15:12,001 --> 03:15:14,000 YOU HAVE SAID, ALL OF YOU COME 5595 03:15:14,001 --> 03:15:15,000 THROUGH THIS TURN STYLE AND WE 5596 03:15:15,001 --> 03:15:17,000 WILL TAKE YOUR IDENTIFICATION 5597 03:15:17,001 --> 03:15:21,000 AND GIVE US YOUR BIRTH 5598 03:15:21,001 --> 03:15:22,000 CERTIFICATE FROM MEXICO OR AL 5599 03:15:22,001 --> 03:15:24,000 SALVADOR OR WHEREVER IT MIGHT 5600 03:15:24,001 --> 03:15:25,000 BE, GUATEMALA, PERHAPS, AND 5601 03:15:25,001 --> 03:15:27,000 WE'LL GIVE YOU AN IDENTITY HERE 5602 03:15:27,001 --> 03:15:29,000 IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 5603 03:15:29,001 --> 03:15:30,000 HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THAT'S THEIR 5604 03:15:30,001 --> 03:15:32,000 REAL IDENTITY? 5605 03:15:32,001 --> 03:15:33,000 MANY DON'T HAVE THE BIRTH 5606 03:15:33,001 --> 03:15:34,000 CERTIFICATES IN THEIR HOME 5607 03:15:34,001 --> 03:15:35,000 COUNTRY. 5608 03:15:35,001 --> 03:15:36,000 THEY DON'T MAYBE KNOW WHERE THEY 5609 03:15:36,001 --> 03:15:38,000 WERE BORN. 5610 03:15:38,001 --> 03:15:39,000 THEY CAN'T PROVE IT IF THEY DO 5611 03:15:39,001 --> 03:15:41,000 KNOW. 5612 03:15:41,001 --> 03:15:42,000 AND SO WE WOULD GRANT AN 5613 03:15:42,001 --> 03:15:44,000 IDENTIFICATION TO 12 MILLION OR 5614 03:15:44,001 --> 03:15:45,000 20 MILLION OR 30 MILLION PEOPLE, 5615 03:15:45,001 --> 03:15:46,000 GIVE THEM A PATH TO CITIZENSHIP 5616 03:15:46,001 --> 03:15:49,000 AND ALL THEY'D NEED TO DO IS A 5617 03:15:49,001 --> 03:15:51,000 TEST THAT THEY WERE SOMEONE. 5618 03:15:51,001 --> 03:15:53,000 WHY WOULD WE IMAGINE THEY WOULD 5619 03:15:53,001 --> 03:15:54,000 ATTEST THAT THEY WERE ONLY ONE 5620 03:15:54,001 --> 03:15:56,000 OF SOMEONE? 5621 03:15:56,001 --> 03:15:57,000 WOULDN'T THEY ALSO WALK THROUGH 5622 03:15:57,001 --> 03:15:58,000 THAT TURN STYLE TWO OR THREE 5623 03:15:58,001 --> 03:15:59,000 TIMES TO GET MULTIPLE 5624 03:15:59,001 --> 03:16:01,000 IDENTITIES? 5625 03:16:01,001 --> 03:16:02,000 MANY OF THEM ARE DOING IT NOW. 5626 03:16:02,001 --> 03:16:05,000 MANY OF THEM ARE TAKING ON THE 5627 03:16:05,001 --> 03:16:07,000 IDENTITY OF SOME AMERICAN, THEY 5628 03:16:07,001 --> 03:16:09,000 HAVE DONE THAT, WHEN SOMEBODY 5629 03:16:09,001 --> 03:16:10,000 STEELS -- STEALS YOUR IDENTITY, 5630 03:16:10,001 --> 03:16:11,000 YOU'RE NEVER DONE. 5631 03:16:11,001 --> 03:16:13,000 YOU NEVER CAN COME BACK TO THE 5632 03:16:13,001 --> 03:16:14,000 THE PERSON YOU WERE AGAIN 5633 03:16:14,001 --> 03:16:16,000 BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN OUT 5634 03:16:16,001 --> 03:16:18,000 THERE IN SOCIETY YOUR SOCIAL 5635 03:16:18,001 --> 03:16:19,000 SECURITY NUMBER, YOUR DRIVER'S 5636 03:16:19,001 --> 03:16:21,000 LICENSE, THOSE I.D.'S THAT ARE 5637 03:16:21,001 --> 03:16:22,000 DOCUMENTS THAT ARE PASSED TO THE 5638 03:16:22,001 --> 03:16:23,000 QUISKSY OF CITIZENSHIP, AREN'T 5639 03:16:23,001 --> 03:16:25,000 BEING USED. 5640 03:16:25,001 --> 03:16:27,000 THEY MIGHT -- YOU MIGHT CATCH 5641 03:16:27,001 --> 03:16:29,000 THE PERSON BUT YOU NEVER KNOW 5642 03:16:29,001 --> 03:16:30,000 HOW MANY PEOPLE PICKED UP YOUR 5643 03:16:30,001 --> 03:16:32,000 IDENTITY AND TRANSLATED THAT 5644 03:16:32,001 --> 03:16:33,000 ALONG THE WAY, TRANSFERRED ALONG 5645 03:16:33,001 --> 03:16:34,000 THE WAY, HOW MANY PEOPLE MIGHT 5646 03:16:34,001 --> 03:16:35,000 BE WORKING UNDER YOUR SOCIAL 5647 03:16:35,001 --> 03:16:38,000 SECURITY NUMBER. 5648 03:16:38,001 --> 03:16:41,000 BUT IF WE WOULD GRANT THIS 5649 03:16:41,001 --> 03:16:42,000 AMNESTY, THIS -- I'VE FORGOTTEN 5650 03:16:42,001 --> 03:16:45,000 THE TERM THAT THEY USE BECAUSE 5651 03:16:45,001 --> 03:16:47,000 AMNESTY IS THE MOST DESCRIPTIVE 5652 03:16:47,001 --> 03:16:49,000 TERM, WE WOULD GRANT THIS, WE 5653 03:16:49,001 --> 03:16:50,000 WOULD SEE, 12 MILLION, 20 5654 03:16:50,001 --> 03:16:51,000 MILLION, MAYBE 30 MILLION PEOPLE 5655 03:16:51,001 --> 03:16:52,000 LINE UP AND ASK FOR THEIR PATH 5656 03:16:52,001 --> 03:16:54,000 TO CITIZENSHIP. 5657 03:16:54,001 --> 03:16:55,000 NOW, WE DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE 5658 03:16:55,001 --> 03:16:56,000 BUT WE'VE GIVEN THEM 5659 03:16:56,001 --> 03:16:58,000 IDENTIFICATION. 5660 03:16:58,001 --> 03:16:59,000 WE CAN'T DO A BACKGROUND CHECK 5661 03:16:59,001 --> 03:17:00,000 ON THEM BECAUSE WE CAN'T VERIFY 5662 03:17:00,001 --> 03:17:04,000 WHO EY ARE IN THE FIRST PLACE. 5663 03:17:04,001 --> 03:17:05,000 SO NOW WE HAVE INTO OUR SYSTEM, 5664 03:17:05,001 --> 03:17:08,000 LET'S SAY 20 MILLION, 20 MILLION 5665 03:17:08,001 --> 03:17:10,000 PEOPLE INTO OUR SYSTEM WHO HAVE 5666 03:17:10,001 --> 03:17:13,000 EN GRANTED SOME KIND OF A 5667 03:17:13,001 --> 03:17:14,000 LEGAL STATUS AND THIS LEGAL 5668 03:17:14,001 --> 03:17:15,000 STATUS ISN'T INDEXED INTO 5669 03:17:15,001 --> 03:17:17,000 ANYTHING THEY DID IN THE PAST 5670 03:17:17,001 --> 03:17:18,000 BECAUSE AFTER ALL, NOBODY'S 5671 03:17:18,001 --> 03:17:22,000 GOING TO COME FORWARD AND SAY, 5672 03:17:22,001 --> 03:17:24,000 OH, YEAH, I WAS A FELON. 5673 03:17:24,001 --> 03:17:30,000 THE CRIMINALS WILL NOT COME 5674 03:17:30,001 --> 03:17:32,000 FORWARD AND IDENTIFY THEMSELVES. 5675 03:17:32,001 --> 03:17:34,000 SO WE WILL HAVE ARE PURIFIED 5676 03:17:34,001 --> 03:17:40,000 THE I.D. OF PEOPLE WHO COME 5677 03:17:40,001 --> 03:17:41,000 HERE AND ACCESS IDEBIT -- 5678 03:17:41,001 --> 03:17:42,000 IDENTIFICATION THROUGH THIS 5679 03:17:42,001 --> 03:17:44,000 PROGRAM. 5680 03:17:44,001 --> 03:17:46,000 WE'VE GIVEN THEM AN 5681 03:17:46,001 --> 03:17:47,000 IDENTIFICATION THAT ALLOWS THEM 5682 03:17:47,001 --> 03:17:49,000 TO TRAVEL ANYWHERE THEY WANT 5683 03:17:49,001 --> 03:17:50,000 TO, ANY TIME THEY WANT. 5684 03:17:50,001 --> 03:17:53,000 TO SO THE IDEA THAT WE CAN KEEP 5685 03:17:53,001 --> 03:17:54,000 TRACK OF THEM IS A FALSE AND 5686 03:17:54,001 --> 03:17:57,000 PEESHES DREAM BECAUSE THE 5687 03:17:57,001 --> 03:18:00,000 PEOPLE WE WANTED TO KEEP TRACK 5688 03:18:00,001 --> 03:18:02,000 OF ARE NOT GOING TO STEP UP AND VOLUNTEER TO BE TRACKED. 5689 03:18:02,001 --> 03:18:04,000 WHAT WE HAVE TODAY ARE FOUR 5690 03:18:04,001 --> 03:18:07,000 MILLION BORDER CROSSINGS A YEAR 5691 03:18:07,001 --> 03:18:08,000 POURING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN 5692 03:18:08,001 --> 03:18:11,000 BORDER, AN ACCUMULATION OF 20 5693 03:18:11,001 --> 03:18:12,000 MILLION TO 30 MILLION ILLEGALS 5694 03:18:12,001 --> 03:18:16,000 IN AMERICA AND IN THAT HUGE, 5695 03:18:16,001 --> 03:18:17,000 HUMAN HAYSTACK, ARE THE NEEDLES 5696 03:18:17,001 --> 03:18:21,000 THAT ARE THE CRIMINALS, THE 5697 03:18:21,001 --> 03:18:22,000 DRUG DEALERS, THE MURDERERS, 5698 03:18:22,001 --> 03:18:24,000 THAT ARE HIDDEN WITHIN THAT 5699 03:18:24,001 --> 03:18:26,000 HUGE HUMAN HAYSTACK OF 5700 03:18:26,001 --> 03:18:28,000 HUMANITY. AND THE IDEA ON THE PART OF 5701 03:18:28,001 --> 03:18:31,000 THIS ADMINISTRATION AND THE 5702 03:18:31,001 --> 03:18:32,000 PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, BY THE 5703 03:18:32,001 --> 03:18:33,000 WAY, THE IDEA ON THE PART OF 5704 03:18:33,001 --> 03:18:35,000 THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR 5705 03:18:35,001 --> 03:18:36,000 PRESIDENT AS WELL, WAS WE'RE 5706 03:18:36,001 --> 03:18:40,000 GOING TO GRANT THEM AMNESTY, 5707 03:18:40,001 --> 03:18:42,000 WHEN WE LEGITIMIZE THIS HUGE, 5708 03:18:42,001 --> 03:18:45,000 HUMAN HAYSTACK, WE'LL BE ABLE 5709 03:18:45,001 --> 03:18:47,000 TO SORT THE NEEDLES OUT OF THE 5710 03:18:47,001 --> 03:18:48,000 HAY 5711 03:18:48,001 --> 03:18:51,000 THAT'S AN IM-- IMPOSSIBILITY. 5712 03:18:51,001 --> 03:18:52,000 IT'S AN IMPOSSIBILITY TO TAKE 5713 03:18:52,001 --> 03:18:54,000 THE IDEA THAT YOU'RE GOING TO 5714 03:18:54,001 --> 03:18:56,000 LET PEOPLE HAVE A PATH TO 5715 03:18:56,001 --> 03:18:58,000 CITIZENSHIP AND GIVE THEM 5716 03:18:58,001 --> 03:19:00,000 DOCUMENTS THAT ALLOW THEM TO LEGALLY TRAVEL BACK AND FORTH 5717 03:19:00,001 --> 03:19:03,000 BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND 5718 03:19:03,001 --> 03:19:04,000 ANY OTHER COUNTRY, THE U.S. 5719 03:19:04,001 --> 03:19:06,000 VISIT PROGRAM IS ONLY HALF 5720 03:19:06,001 --> 03:19:08,000 OPERATIONAL WE KEEP TRACK OF 5721 03:19:08,001 --> 03:19:10,000 WHO COMES INTO AMERICA, B WE 5722 03:19:10,001 --> 03:19:12,000 DON'T KEEP TRACK OF WHO GOES 5723 03:19:12,001 --> 03:19:15,000 OUT OF AMERICA. 5724 03:19:15,001 --> 03:19:16,000 AND I TESTED THIS ONE EVENING 5725 03:19:16,001 --> 03:19:21,000 DOWN ON A BORDER CROSSING ON 5726 03:19:21,001 --> 03:19:22,000 THE MEXICAN BORDER, JUST SIMPLY 5727 03:19:22,001 --> 03:19:23,000 WAS THERE, OBSERVING WHAT WAS 5728 03:19:23,001 --> 03:19:25,000 GOING ON. 5729 03:19:25,001 --> 03:19:27,000 I RECALL PEOPLE COMING THRU 5730 03:19:27,001 --> 03:19:30,000 THERE, THAT OUR BORDER PATROL, 5731 03:19:30,001 --> 03:19:33,000 THAT BORDER PATROL KNEW, OUR 5732 03:19:33,001 --> 03:19:34,000 CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION 5733 03:19:34,001 --> 03:19:36,000 PEOPLE KNEW, THEY WOULD SAY 5734 03:19:36,001 --> 03:19:39,000 YES, SWIPE IT THROUGH THE U.S. 5735 03:19:39,001 --> 03:19:41,000 VISIT COMPUTER, IT WOULD 5736 03:19:41,001 --> 03:19:44,000 REGISTER THE IDENTITY ON THE CARD THAT MATCHED THE FACE OF 5737 03:19:44,001 --> 03:19:45,000 THE DRIVER, THE DRIVER TOOK 5738 03:19:45,001 --> 03:19:46,000 OFF. 5739 03:19:46,001 --> 03:19:48,000 I STOOD THERE A WHILE LONGER, 5740 03:19:48,001 --> 03:19:49,000 MAYBE AN HOUR, HOUR AND A HALF 5741 03:19:49,001 --> 03:19:51,000 LATER. 5742 03:19:51,001 --> 03:19:52,000 SAME CAR CAME BACK, SAME 5743 03:19:52,001 --> 03:19:53,000 INDIVIDUAL IN IT, DROVE BACK 5744 03:19:53,001 --> 03:19:59,000 INTO MEXICO. 5745 03:19:59,001 --> 03:20:00,000 AND SO I SAID, YOU SWIPED HER 5746 03:20:00,001 --> 03:20:02,000 CARD COMING IN, CHECKED HER 5747 03:20:02,001 --> 03:20:03,000 I.D. YOU DIDN'T SWIPE HER CARD 5748 03:20:03,001 --> 03:20:05,000 GOING OUT. 5749 03:20:05,001 --> 03:20:06,000 NO WE DON'T GET TRACK OF THAT. 5750 03:20:06,001 --> 03:20:08,000 A FEW PLACES I UNDERSTAND WE 5751 03:20:08,001 --> 03:20:11,000 DO, PILOT PROGRAMS, BUT WE 5752 03:20:11,001 --> 03:20:13,000 DON'T KEEP TRACK OF THAT. 5753 03:20:13,001 --> 03:20:14,000 WE CAN'T GET A SYSTEM UP TO 5754 03:20:14,001 --> 03:20:16,000 DEAL WITH THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE 5755 03:20:16,001 --> 03:20:19,000 PROPER DOCUMENTATION TODAY TO 5756 03:20:19,001 --> 03:20:20,000 KEEP THAT BALANCE SHEET OF THE 5757 03:20:20,001 --> 03:20:21,000 COMPUTER DATABASE OF WHO CAME 5758 03:20:21,001 --> 03:20:23,000 INTO THE UNITED STATES, WHO 5759 03:20:23,001 --> 03:20:25,000 LEFT OUT OF THE UNITED STATES 5760 03:20:25,001 --> 03:20:26,000 AND THEN THE BALANCE IN THE 5761 03:20:26,001 --> 03:20:28,000 MIDDLE, THOSE THAT HAVE NOT 5762 03:20:28,001 --> 03:20:29,000 LEFT, OSE THAT CAME IN, MINUS 5763 03:20:29,001 --> 03:20:30,000 THOSE THAT LEFT WILL BE THE 5764 03:20:30,001 --> 03:20:32,000 LIST OF NAMES OF PEOPLE THAT 5765 03:20:32,001 --> 03:20:37,000 ARE HERE. 5766 03:20:37,001 --> 03:20:40,000 WE CAN'T EVEN GET THAT DONE. 5767 03:20:40,001 --> 03:20:43,000 WE WOULD HAVE LEGITIMIZED 20 5768 03:20:43,001 --> 03:20:47,000 MILLION OR 30 MILLION PEOPLE, TELL OURSELVESES THAT SOMEHOW 5769 03:20:47,001 --> 03:20:48,000 OUT OF THIS HAYSTACK OF 5770 03:20:48,001 --> 03:20:51,000 HUMANITY, WE'LL BE ABLE TO 5771 03:20:51,001 --> 03:20:52,000 FERRET OUT THE CRIMINALS, DRUG 5772 03:20:52,001 --> 03:20:54,000 DEALERS AND VIOLENT PEOPLE THAT 5773 03:20:54,001 --> 03:20:56,000 ARE THERE, ALL THE WHILE IN 5774 03:20:56,001 --> 03:20:58,000 THIS STREAM OF HUMANITY COMES 5775 03:20:58,001 --> 03:20:59,000 90% OF THE ILLEGAL DRUGS IN 5776 03:20:59,001 --> 03:21:01,000 AMERICA, MADAM SPEAKER. 5777 03:21:01,001 --> 03:21:02,000 90% COMING INTO THE UNITED 5778 03:21:02,001 --> 03:21:04,000 STATES ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN 5779 03:21:04,001 --> 03:21:05,000 BORDER. 5780 03:21:05,001 --> 03:21:06,000 AND ALL THE HUMAN CARNAGE THAT 5781 03:21:06,001 --> 03:21:08,000 GOES WITH THAT. 5782 03:21:08,001 --> 03:21:09,000 THE DAMAGE TO OUR FAMILIES. 5783 03:21:09,001 --> 03:21:10,000 THE DAMAGE TO OUR PRODUCTIVITY. 5784 03:21:10,001 --> 03:21:11,000 THE LOSS IN LIVES. 5785 03:21:11,001 --> 03:21:13,000 THE CHILDREN THAT ARE ABUSED. 5786 03:21:13,001 --> 03:21:16,000 THE WIVES AND SOMETIMES, AND 5787 03:21:16,001 --> 03:21:20,000 LESS OFTEN, THE HUSBANDS 5788 03:21:20,001 --> 03:21:22,000 VIOLENTLY ATTACKED BY THEIR 5789 03:21:22,001 --> 03:21:24,000 SPOUSE, THEIR SIGNIFICANT 5790 03:21:24,001 --> 03:21:26,000 OTHER. 5791 03:21:26,001 --> 03:21:27,000 THE CHILDREN THAT COME THAT ARE 5792 03:21:27,001 --> 03:21:28,000 ABUSED OF METH AM FEET MEANS, 5793 03:21:28,001 --> 03:21:32,000 BECAUSE OF CRACK COCAINE AND 5794 03:21:32,001 --> 03:21:34,000 BECAUSE OF COCAINE ITSELF. 5795 03:21:34,001 --> 03:21:37,000 THOSE DRUGS, MARIJUANA WHICH 5796 03:21:37,001 --> 03:21:38,000 OFTEN IS A GATAY DRUG TO THE 5797 03:21:38,001 --> 03:21:39,000 DRUGS THAT INCITE HIGHER LEVEL 5798 03:21:39,001 --> 03:21:42,000 OF VIOLENCE. 5799 03:21:42,001 --> 03:21:44,000 THIS DAMAGE TO AMERICA'S 5800 03:21:44,001 --> 03:21:46,000 SOCIETY IS HIGH. 5801 03:21:46,001 --> 03:21:49,000 IT'S HIGH IN TERMS OF DOLLARS 5802 03:21:49,001 --> 03:21:53,000 AND HOST PRODUCTIVITY, HIGH IN 5803 03:21:53,001 --> 03:21:55,000 TERMS OF HUMAN LIFE. 5804 03:21:55,001 --> 03:21:57,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I WILL BE 5805 03:21:57,001 --> 03:21:59,000 CONTINUING TO PRESS OUR DRUG 5806 03:21:59,001 --> 03:22:00,000 ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ALL THE 5807 03:22:00,001 --> 03:22:04,000 RELEVANT AGENCIES TO GIVE ME 5808 03:22:04,001 --> 03:22:07,000 THE NUMBERS ON WHAT THE COST IS 5809 03:22:07,001 --> 03:22:09,000 TO THIS ECONOMY WHAT IS THE 5810 03:22:09,001 --> 03:22:10,000 STREET VALUE OF THE ILLEGAL 5811 03:22:10,001 --> 03:22:12,000 DRUGS IN THE UNITED STATES OF 5812 03:22:12,001 --> 03:22:13,000 AMERICA? 5813 03:22:13,001 --> 03:22:14,000 THEY CAN GIVE ME A NUMBER THAT 5814 03:22:14,001 --> 03:22:16,000 TELLS ME ABOUT HOW MUCH IS 5815 03:22:16,001 --> 03:22:17,000 PROFIT THAT GOES SOUTH, BUT 5816 03:22:17,001 --> 03:22:18,000 THEY DON'T SEEM TO WANT TO BE 5817 03:22:18,001 --> 03:22:22,000 ABLE TO GIVE ME A NUMBER ON HOW 5818 03:22:22,001 --> 03:22:23,000 MUCH IS SPENT ON ILLEGAL DRUGS IN THE UNITED STATES OF 5819 03:22:23,001 --> 03:22:25,000 AMERICA. 5820 03:22:25,001 --> 03:22:26,000 I CAN TELL YOU AUT HOW MUCH 5821 03:22:26,001 --> 03:22:28,000 MOY IS WIRED OUT OF THE 5822 03:22:28,001 --> 03:22:29,000 UNITED STATES INTO THE REST OF 5823 03:22:29,001 --> 03:22:32,000 THIS HEMISPHERE, ALMOST ALL OF 5824 03:22:32,001 --> 03:22:35,000 IT SOUTH, AND IT WORKS OUT TO 5825 03:22:35,001 --> 03:22:37,000 BE THIS -- $60 BILLION A YEAR 5826 03:22:37,001 --> 03:22:39,000 AGO. 5827 03:22:39,001 --> 03:22:40,000 $60 BILLION WIRED FROM THE 5828 03:22:40,001 --> 03:22:42,000 UNITED STATES INTO POINTS 5829 03:22:42,001 --> 03:22:44,000 SOUTH, HALF OF IT INTO MEXICO, 5830 03:22:44,001 --> 03:22:46,000 $30 BILLION INTO MEXICO, $50 5831 03:22:46,001 --> 03:22:47,000 BILLION INTO MEXICO OVER THE 5832 03:22:47,001 --> 03:22:48,000 LAST TWO YEARS. 5833 03:22:48,001 --> 03:22:49,000 THAT'S BILLION WITH A B, NOT 5834 03:22:49,001 --> 03:22:50,000 TRILLION WITH A T. 5835 03:22:50,001 --> 03:22:53,000 BILLION WITH A B. 5836 03:22:53,001 --> 03:22:56,000 BUT $30 BILLION AND ANOTHER $30 5837 03:22:56,001 --> 03:22:58,000 BILLION THAT WENT INTO THE 5838 03:22:58,001 --> 03:22:59,000 CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICA. 5839 03:22:59,001 --> 03:23:01,000 $60 BILLION OUT OF THIS ECONOMY 5840 03:23:01,001 --> 03:23:03,000 A LOT OF IT CAME FROM WAGES 5841 03:23:03,001 --> 03:23:04,000 THAT WERE EARNED, SOME BY LEGAL 5842 03:23:04,001 --> 03:23:06,000 IMMIGRANTS THAT ARE HERE, THEY 5843 03:23:06,001 --> 03:23:07,000 HAVE A PERFECT RIGHT TO WIRE 5844 03:23:07,001 --> 03:23:10,000 THEIR EARNED MONEY WHEREVER 5845 03:23:10,001 --> 03:23:12,000 THEY WANT TO WIRE THEIR EARNED 5846 03:23:12,001 --> 03:23:13,000 MONEY, I'LL DEFEND THAT, BUT 5847 03:23:13,001 --> 03:23:15,000 IT'S A CRANE OUT OF THIS ECONOMY. 5848 03:23:15,001 --> 03:23:17,000 COUPLED WITH THAT ARE THE 5849 03:23:17,001 --> 03:23:19,000 BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WIRED OUT 5850 03:23:19,001 --> 03:23:20,000 OF THE UNITED STATES IN WAGES 5851 03:23:20,001 --> 03:23:21,000 EARNED ILLEGALLY. 5852 03:23:21,001 --> 03:23:24,000 COUPLED WITH THAT ARE THE 5853 03:23:24,001 --> 03:23:25,000 BILLIONS THAT ARE LAUNDERED AND 5854 03:23:25,001 --> 03:23:26,000 WIRED OUT OF THE UNITED STATES 5855 03:23:26,001 --> 03:23:29,000 OF AMERICA THAT ARE BEING PAID 5856 03:23:29,001 --> 03:23:30,000 FOR BY ILLEGAL DRUGS THAT ARE 5857 03:23:30,001 --> 03:23:32,000 THE STREET VALUE OF ILLEGAL 5858 03:23:32,001 --> 03:23:33,000 DRUGS IN THE UNITED STATES OF 5859 03:23:33,001 --> 03:23:34,000 AMERICA. 5860 03:23:34,001 --> 03:23:36,000 THAT'S THE NUMBER I DON'T HAVE. 5861 03:23:36,001 --> 03:23:37,000 THAT'S THE NUMBER I'M GOING TO 5862 03:23:37,001 --> 03:23:38,000 PRESS UNTIL I GET, MAM 5863 03:23:38,001 --> 03:23:40,000 SPEAKER. 5864 03:23:40,001 --> 03:23:42,000 BECAUSE WE CAN THEN START TO 5865 03:23:42,001 --> 03:23:43,000 MAKE DECISIONS ON THE BROADER 5866 03:23:43,001 --> 03:23:45,000 PARAMETERS OF HAVING A 5867 03:23:45,001 --> 03:23:46,000 KNOWLEDGE BASE OF THE BIG 5868 03:23:46,001 --> 03:23:48,000 PICTURE SYSTEM OF THE BIG 5869 03:23:48,001 --> 03:23:50,000 PICTURE WORK BLANKS IN IT, IS, 5870 03:23:50,001 --> 03:23:52,000 OUR ECONOMY LOSES $60 BILLION A 5871 03:23:52,001 --> 03:23:54,000 YEAR THAT'S WIRED SOUTH. 5872 03:23:54,001 --> 03:23:57,000 MUCH OF IT FROM WAGES AND I 5873 03:23:57,001 --> 03:23:59,000 THINK A SIGNIFICANT PORTION, 5874 03:23:59,001 --> 03:24:00,000 LEGITIMATE, LEGAL WAMES. 5875 03:24:00,001 --> 03:24:02,000 $60 BILLION GOING THAT WAY. 5876 03:24:02,001 --> 03:24:04,000 THERE'S A PROFIT MARGIN AROUND 5877 03:24:04,001 --> 03:24:05,000 $25 BILLION ON ILLEGAL DRUGS IN 5878 03:24:05,001 --> 03:24:07,000 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 5879 03:24:07,001 --> 03:24:09,000 ABOUT 90% OF THOSE ILLEGAL 5880 03:24:09,001 --> 03:24:10,000 DRUGS COME ACROSS THE BORDER 5881 03:24:10,001 --> 03:24:11,000 WITH MEXICO. 5882 03:24:11,001 --> 03:24:13,000 MANY OF THOSE DRUGS ORIGINATE 5883 03:24:13,001 --> 03:24:15,000 IN COUNTRIES SOUTH OF MEXICO 5884 03:24:15,001 --> 03:24:16,000 AND TRAVEL THROUGH MEXICO. 5885 03:24:16,001 --> 03:24:18,000 THE MAGNET FOR THOSE ILLEGAL 5886 03:24:18,001 --> 03:24:21,000 DRUG STHESS MARKET HERE, THE 5887 03:24:21,001 --> 03:24:22,000 MARKET HERE IS ALLOWED AND 5888 03:24:22,001 --> 03:24:25,000 CREATED BECAUSE WE HAVE DRUG 5889 03:24:25,001 --> 03:24:28,000 ABUSERS IN AMERICA AND LOTS OF 5890 03:24:28,001 --> 03:24:29,000 THEM ANDHEY SPEND A LOT OF 5891 03:24:29,001 --> 03:24:31,000 MONEY IN A YEAR. 5892 03:24:31,001 --> 03:24:33,000 THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT PEOPLE 5893 03:24:33,001 --> 03:24:34,000 TELL ME THEY DON'T KNOW THAT 5894 03:24:34,001 --> 03:24:36,000 ANSWER. 5895 03:24:36,001 --> 03:24:40,000 I SAY THEY'VE GOT THE DATA AND 5896 03:24:40,001 --> 03:24:42,000 IF THEY CANT FIGURE IT OUT, I 5897 03:24:42,001 --> 03:24:43,000 CAN AND I WILL. 5898 03:24:43,001 --> 03:24:45,000 IN ANY CASE, THE LOSS TO THIS 5899 03:24:45,001 --> 03:24:46,000 ECONOMY IS HUGE AND WHEN 5900 03:24:46,001 --> 03:24:48,000 MEXICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS SIT 5901 03:24:48,001 --> 03:24:49,000 DOWN IN MY OFFICE AND BEGIN TO 5902 03:24:49,001 --> 03:24:52,000 TALK TO ME ABOUT THE VIOLENCE 5903 03:24:52,001 --> 03:24:55,000 IN MEXICO BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE 5904 03:24:55,001 --> 03:24:57,000 DRUG TRADE, I HAVE TO CONCEDE 5905 03:24:57,001 --> 03:25:01,000 TO THEM THE POINT THAT IT'S THE 5906 03:25:01,001 --> 03:25:02,000 DEMAND FOR ILLEGAL DRUGS IN THE 5907 03:25:02,001 --> 03:25:04,000 UNITED STATES BECAUSE OF THE 5908 03:25:04,001 --> 03:25:05,000 PROFIT ASSOCIATED WITH 5909 03:25:05,001 --> 03:25:06,000 SMGLING DRUGS INTO THE UNITED 5910 03:25:06,001 --> 03:25:07,000 STATES. 5911 03:25:07,001 --> 03:25:09,000 WE ALSO KNOW THAT THE 5912 03:25:09,001 --> 03:25:10,000 METHAMPHETAMINE PRODUCTION IN 5913 03:25:10,001 --> 03:25:11,000 THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN 5914 03:25:11,001 --> 03:25:13,000 REDUCED TO A MINIMUM BECAUSE 5915 03:25:13,001 --> 03:25:14,000 WE'VE PASSED SOME LEGISLATION 5916 03:25:14,001 --> 03:25:16,000 THAT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER AND 5917 03:25:16,001 --> 03:25:23,000 SOME OF THE STATES HAVE MADE IT 5918 03:25:23,001 --> 03:25:24,000 BETTER THAT SHUTS DOWN THESE 5919 03:25:24,001 --> 03:25:26,000 PSEUDOEPHEDRINES THAT ARE THE 5920 03:25:26,001 --> 03:25:28,000 FEED STOCKS TO MAKE METH AM 5921 03:25:28,001 --> 03:25:31,000 FEET -- METHAMPHETAMINE. 5922 03:25:31,001 --> 03:25:34,000 IN IOWA WE HAVE A GOOD LAW THAT 5923 03:25:34,001 --> 03:25:37,000 TAKES THAT OUT OF THE LABS. 5924 03:25:37,001 --> 03:25:39,000 THEY STILL MAKE METH IN IOWA, 5925 03:25:39,001 --> 03:25:46,000 NOW MAYBE THAT NUMBER IS 95% OF 5926 03:25:46,001 --> 03:25:48,000 THE METHAMPHETAMINE IN IOWA 5927 03:25:48,001 --> 03:25:50,000 COMES FROM MEXICO, BECAUSE WE 5928 03:25:50,001 --> 03:25:52,000 MADE IT HARDER FOR HOME TO MAKE 5929 03:25:52,001 --> 03:25:54,000 IT IN IOWA. 5930 03:25:54,001 --> 03:25:56,000 THEY MADE IT HARDER IN OREGON 5931 03:25:56,001 --> 03:25:57,000 AND I THINK OKLAHOMA AND OTHER 5932 03:25:57,001 --> 03:25:59,000 STAT. 5933 03:25:59,001 --> 03:26:00,000 ANOTHER PIECE OF INFORMATION 5934 03:26:00,001 --> 03:26:01,000 THAT I GATHER IS THAT MEXICO 5935 03:26:01,001 --> 03:26:03,000 AND THEY ADVISED ME DOWN THERE 5936 03:26:03,001 --> 03:26:05,000 THAT THEY'VE DONE, IT'S A 5937 03:26:05,001 --> 03:26:07,000 MATTER OF PUBLIC POLICY AND I 5938 03:26:07,001 --> 03:26:08,000 APPLAUD THEM FOR IT. 5939 03:26:08,001 --> 03:26:11,000 FOR THE BEGINNING OFHE YEAR 5940 03:26:11,001 --> 03:26:14,000 2008 THEY OUTLAWED THE 5941 03:26:14,001 --> 03:26:20,000 IMPORTATION OF PSEUDOFED RUNS 5942 03:26:20,001 --> 03:26:25,000 IN MEXICO, -- OF PSEUDOFED RUN 5943 03:26:25,001 --> 03:26:26,000 -- PSEUDOEPHEDRINES IN MEXICO. 5944 03:26:26,001 --> 03:26:29,000 THEY ALLOWED PEOPLE WHO HAD IT 5945 03:26:29,001 --> 03:26:32,000 IN THEIR POSSESSION TO GET RID 5946 03:26:32,001 --> 03:26:36,000 OF IT BY THE END OF 2008. 5947 03:26:36,001 --> 03:26:37,000 IT'S NOW ILLEGAL TO POSSESS 5948 03:26:37,001 --> 03:26:39,000 PSEUDOEPHEDRINE IN MICO 5949 03:26:39,001 --> 03:26:42,000 BECAUSE IT'S A FEED STOCK USED 5950 03:26:42,001 --> 03:26:44,000 TO PRODUCE METHAMPHETAMINES. 5951 03:26:44,001 --> 03:26:45,000 THAT'S A COUPLE OF BIG PIECES 5952 03:26:45,001 --> 03:26:47,000 OF LEGISLATION, A STRONG IT 5953 03:26:47,001 --> 03:26:51,000 COMMIT -- A STRONG COMMITMENT 5954 03:26:51,001 --> 03:26:55,000 ON THE PT OF THE MEXICAN 5955 03:26:55,001 --> 03:26:56,000 GOVERNMENT TOEDUCE THE NUMBER 5956 03:26:56,001 --> 03:26:58,000 OF METHAMPHETAMIS THAT COME 5957 03:26:58,001 --> 03:27:01,000 INTO THE UNITED STATES. 5958 03:27:01,001 --> 03:27:03,000 NOW COMES ORDER THAT COME INTO 5959 03:27:03,001 --> 03:27:04,000 THE UNITED STATES THROUGH 5960 03:27:04,001 --> 03:27:06,000 VARIOUS MEANS, I WON'T SPEAK TO 5961 03:27:06,001 --> 03:27:09,000 THOSE MEANS. 5962 03:27:09,001 --> 03:27:12,000 THEN THE PSEUDOEPHEDRINES THAT 5963 03:27:12,001 --> 03:27:13,000 CAN'T BE IMPORTED INTO THE 5964 03:27:13,001 --> 03:27:20,000 UNITED STATES, GET SMUGGLE 5965 03:27:20,001 --> 03:27:22,000 INTO MEXICO, TURNED INTO 5966 03:27:22,001 --> 03:27:23,000 METHAMPHETAMINES AND BROUGHT 5967 03:27:23,001 --> 03:27:26,000 BACK INTO AMERICA. 5968 03:27:26,001 --> 03:27:27,000 THESE THINGS ARE GOING ON AT A 5969 03:27:27,001 --> 03:27:30,000 HUGE PRICE TO AMERICAN LIVES, 5970 03:27:30,001 --> 03:27:31,000 BLOOD AND TREASURE ALL 5971 03:27:31,001 --> 03:27:33,000 TOGETHER, AND THE PRICE WE PAY 5972 03:27:33,001 --> 03:27:35,000 HERE IN THIS COUNTRY IS HIGH 5973 03:27:35,001 --> 03:27:36,000 BUT THE PRICE THEY PAID IN 5974 03:27:36,001 --> 03:27:38,000 MEXICO, AT LEAST AS PUBLISHED 5975 03:27:38,001 --> 03:27:40,000 IN THE NEWS IS PERHAPS HIGHER 5976 03:27:40,001 --> 03:27:43,000 YET. 5977 03:27:43,001 --> 03:27:45,000 AND WE HAVE -- WE DO NOT HAVE A 5978 03:27:45,001 --> 03:27:46,000 FULL APPROACH TO WHAT WE NEED 5979 03:27:46,001 --> 03:27:48,000 TO DO ABOUT ILLEGAL DRUGS IN 5980 03:27:48,001 --> 03:27:49,000 AMERICA. 5981 03:27:49,001 --> 03:27:51,000 WE TALK ABOUT COMPREHENSIVE 5982 03:27:51,001 --> 03:27:52,000 IMMIGRATION REFORM. 5983 03:27:52,001 --> 03:27:54,000 MADAM SPEAKER, WHAT ABOUT 5984 03:27:54,001 --> 03:27:56,000 COMPREHENSIVE ILL DEAL -- 5985 03:27:56,001 --> 03:27:57,000 ILLEGAL DRUG REFORM. 5986 03:27:57,001 --> 03:28:00,000 LOOK AT THIS THING FROM A 5987 03:28:00,001 --> 03:28:02,000 BROADER BASIS AND FIRST OF ALL, 5988 03:28:02,001 --> 03:28:04,000 I WILL SUGGEST THAT AS LONG AS 5989 03:28:04,001 --> 03:28:05,000 WE HAVE PEOPLE COMING ACROSS 5990 03:28:05,001 --> 03:28:07,000 OUR BORDER LEGALLY AND 5991 03:28:07,001 --> 03:28:09,000 ILLEGALLY TO THE TUNE OF FOUR 5992 03:28:09,001 --> 03:28:10,000 MILLION ILLEGALS A YEAR, AND I 5993 03:28:10,001 --> 03:28:13,000 DON'T KNOW THE LEGAL CROSSING 5994 03:28:13,001 --> 03:28:15,000 NUMBERS, FOUR MILLION ILLEGAL 5995 03:28:15,001 --> 03:28:19,000 CROSSINGS A YEAR AND OF THAT 5996 03:28:19,001 --> 03:28:21,000 NUMBER, ROUGHLY 11,000 A NIGHT, 5997 03:28:21,001 --> 03:28:23,000 DRUGS BEING SMUGGLED IN IN THAT 5998 03:28:23,001 --> 03:28:25,000 STREAM AND THE STREAM ITSELF, 5999 03:28:25,001 --> 03:28:28,000 WHETHER THEY ARE INVOLVED IN OTHER ILLEGAL ACTIVITY OTHER 6000 03:28:28,001 --> 03:28:29,000 THAN THE CRIME OF COMING INTO 6001 03:28:29,001 --> 03:28:32,000 THE UNITED STATES, THEY BECOME 6002 03:28:32,001 --> 03:28:33,000 A SHIELD, A HABITAT, A WAY OF 6003 03:28:33,001 --> 03:28:36,000 PROTECTING THE STREAM OF 6004 03:28:36,001 --> 03:28:37,000 ILLEGAL DRUG SMUGGLERS 6005 03:28:37,001 --> 03:28:38,000 OPERATING ALL OVER THE UNITED 6006 03:28:38,001 --> 03:28:39,000 STATES. 6007 03:28:39,001 --> 03:28:41,000 WHEN I ASKED THE DRUG 6008 03:28:41,001 --> 03:28:43,000 ENFORCEMENT PEOPLE, WHAT WOULD 6009 03:28:43,001 --> 03:28:45,000 HAPPEN IF MAGICALLY, TOMORROW 6010 03:28:45,001 --> 03:28:47,000 MORNING, EVERYONE WOKE UP IN 6011 03:28:47,001 --> 03:28:48,000 THEIR OWN COUNTRY A PLACE WHERE 6012 03:28:48,001 --> 03:28:50,000 THEY WERE LEGAL WHAT IF HE HAD 6013 03:28:50,001 --> 03:28:52,000 NO ILLEGALS IN AMERICA, 6014 03:28:52,001 --> 03:28:53,000 MAGICALLY, TOMORROW MORNING. 6015 03:28:53,001 --> 03:28:56,000 WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THE 6016 03:28:56,001 --> 03:28:57,000 ILLEGAL DRUG DISTRIBUTION 6017 03:28:57,001 --> 03:28:59,000 SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES? 6018 03:28:59,001 --> 03:29:00,000 AND THEIR ANSWER HAS 6019 03:29:00,001 --> 03:29:02,000 CONSISTENTLY BEEN, THAT WILL 6020 03:29:02,001 --> 03:29:03,000 SUSPEND IMMEDIATELY ILLEGAL 6021 03:29:03,001 --> 03:29:04,000 DRUG DISTRIBUTION IN AMERICA 6022 03:29:04,001 --> 03:29:07,000 BECAUSE AT LEAST ONE LINK IN 6023 03:29:07,001 --> 03:29:10,000 EVERY DISTRIBUTION CHAIN IS A 6024 03:29:10,001 --> 03:29:11,000 LINK THAT'S FORGED BY AN 6025 03:29:11,001 --> 03:29:12,000 ILLEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES OF 6026 03:29:12,001 --> 03:29:14,000 AMERICA. 6027 03:29:14,001 --> 03:29:15,000 SOMETIMES EVERY LINK IS AN 6028 03:29:15,001 --> 03:29:17,000 ILLEGAL LINK. 6029 03:29:17,001 --> 03:29:20,000 BUT THEY'RE FORGING THESE 6030 03:29:20,001 --> 03:29:21,000 LINKS, AT LEAST ONE LINK NEVER 6031 03:29:21,001 --> 03:29:25,000 ILLEGAL DISTRIBUTION -- ILLEGAL 6032 03:29:25,001 --> 03:29:26,000 DRUG DISTRIBUTION CHAIN IS AN 6033 03:29:26,001 --> 03:29:28,000 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT THAT'S HERE 6034 03:29:28,001 --> 03:29:29,000 TRANSFERRING DRUGS. 6035 03:29:29,001 --> 03:29:32,000 SO IF WE HAD, AND I WON'T 6036 03:29:32,001 --> 03:29:36,000 ARGUE, I'LL SAY THIS FIRST 6037 03:29:36,001 --> 03:29:37,000 HYPOTHETICAL, IF WE HAD FULL 6038 03:29:37,001 --> 03:29:40,000 ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS 6039 03:29:40,001 --> 03:29:41,000 OVERNIGHT, WE'D SHUT OFF 6040 03:29:41,001 --> 03:29:43,000 ILLEGAL DRUG DISTRIBUTION 6041 03:29:43,001 --> 03:29:45,000 OVERNIGHT, MADAM SPEAKER. 6042 03:29:45,001 --> 03:29:47,000 THAT'S NOT TO SAY THE 6043 03:29:47,001 --> 03:29:48,000 DISTRIBUTION CHAINS WOULDN'T BE 6044 03:29:48,001 --> 03:29:51,000 RECONSTRUCTED, THAT THERE 6045 03:29:51,001 --> 03:29:52,000 WOULDN'T BE ILLEGAL DRUG 6046 03:29:52,001 --> 03:29:54,000 ENTREPRENEURS TO FILL THE 6047 03:29:54,001 --> 03:29:55,000 DEMAND, BECAUSE THE DEMAND DOES 6048 03:29:55,001 --> 03:29:57,000 EXIST. 6049 03:29:57,001 --> 03:29:58,000 IT EXISTS HERE IN THE UNITED 6050 03:29:58,001 --> 03:30:00,000 STATES BUT THE PROFIT IS GOING 6051 03:30:00,001 --> 03:30:02,000 TO MEXICO. WE HAVE ABOUT TWO CHOICES ON 6052 03:30:02,001 --> 03:30:03,000 THIS I SAY THERE ARE THREE 6053 03:30:03,001 --> 03:30:05,000 CHOICES. 6054 03:30:05,001 --> 03:30:06,000 WE CAN RAMP UP THE INTERDICTION 6055 03:30:06,001 --> 03:30:07,000 TO THE POINT WHERE IT RAISES 6056 03:30:07,001 --> 03:30:08,000 THE TRANSACTION COST SO HIGH 6057 03:30:08,001 --> 03:30:10,000 THAT DRUG SMUGGLING, BRINGING 6058 03:30:10,001 --> 03:30:13,000 IT INTO THE UNITED STATES WOULD 6059 03:30:13,001 --> 03:30:15,000 GET SO COSTLY IT WOULD CEASE. 6060 03:30:15,001 --> 03:30:17,000 THAT'S ONE THING WE CAN DO. 6061 03:30:17,001 --> 03:30:21,000 AND ANOTHER THING THAT WE CAN 6062 03:30:21,001 --> 03:30:24,000 DO WOULD BE -- WOULD BE TO TURN 6063 03:30:24,001 --> 03:30:25,000 UP THE DRUG TESTING IN THE 6064 03:30:25,001 --> 03:30:26,000 UNITED STATES. 6065 03:30:26,001 --> 03:30:29,000 THINKING OF IT IN THESE TERMS 6066 03:30:29,001 --> 03:30:31,000 IF EVERY EMPLOYER HAD A 6067 03:30:31,001 --> 03:30:33,000 DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE IF EVERY 6068 03:30:33,001 --> 03:30:35,000 EMPLOYER ENFORCED A DRUG-FREE 6069 03:30:35,001 --> 03:30:38,000 WORKPLACE POLICY IF THEY 6070 03:30:38,001 --> 03:30:39,000 ALLOWED, IF THE EMPLOYERS 6071 03:30:39,001 --> 03:30:41,000 ACTUALLY INITIATED DRUG TESTING 6072 03:30:41,001 --> 03:30:44,000 WITHIN THE WORKFORCE IN FOUR 6073 03:30:44,001 --> 03:30:45,000 DIFFERENT CATEGORIES IF THEY 6074 03:30:45,001 --> 03:30:48,000 HAD PRE-EMPLOYMENT TESTING SO 6075 03:30:48,001 --> 03:30:50,000 LET'S JUST SAY AT THE H.R. 6076 03:30:50,001 --> 03:30:52,000 DEPARTMENT IF ONE SITS DOWN FOR 6077 03:30:52,001 --> 03:30:54,000 A JOB INTERVIEW, AND THE 6078 03:30:54,001 --> 03:30:55,000 EMPLOYER INTERVIEWS THEM AND 6079 03:30:55,001 --> 03:30:57,000 THEY COME TO THIS CONCLUSION 6080 03:30:57,001 --> 03:30:58,000 THAT THEY'D LIKE TO HIRE THEM, 6081 03:30:58,001 --> 03:30:59,000 THEY SAY, ALL RIGHT, I WANT YOU 6082 03:30:59,001 --> 03:31:03,000 TO COME TO WORK FOR ME ON 6083 03:31:03,001 --> 03:31:04,000 MONDAY MORNING, BUT CONDITIONAL 6084 03:31:04,001 --> 03:31:06,000 TO THIS. 6085 03:31:06,001 --> 03:31:08,000 I'M GOING TO HAVE TO RUN YOUR 6086 03:31:08,001 --> 03:31:10,000 NUMBERS AND YOUR DATA THROUGH 6087 03:31:10,001 --> 03:31:12,000 E-VERIFY TO MAKE SURE THAT 6088 03:31:12,001 --> 03:31:13,000 YOU'RE LEGAL AND THE SECOND 6089 03:31:13,001 --> 03:31:15,000 THING IS THAT YOU'LL HAVE TO DO 6090 03:31:15,001 --> 03:31:17,000 IS COMPLY WITH THE DRUG TEST. 6091 03:31:17,001 --> 03:31:19,000 I'LL SET YOU UP, YOU CAN BE 6092 03:31:19,001 --> 03:31:22,000 WITH -- WE'VE GOT THIS CLINIC 6093 03:31:22,001 --> 03:31:23,000 HERE THAT WORKS WITH US, WE'LL 6094 03:31:23,001 --> 03:31:26,000 RUN YOU OVER THAT, YOU PS THE 6095 03:31:26,001 --> 03:31:28,000 TEST, PASS THE E-VERIFY YOU GO 6096 03:31:28,001 --> 03:31:30,000 TO WORK ON MONDAY MORNING. CONGRATULATIONS. 6097 03:31:30,001 --> 03:31:31,000 THAT WOULD BE A GOOD PROCESS. 6098 03:31:31,001 --> 03:31:33,000 SOME COMPANIES DO THIS. 6099 03:31:33,001 --> 03:31:35,000 IN FACT, MANY COMPANIES IN IOWA 6100 03:31:35,001 --> 03:31:37,000 DO DO THIS, WITH THE EXCEPTION 6101 03:31:37,001 --> 03:31:40,000 OF E-VERIFY, THEY HAVE TO HIRE 6102 03:31:40,001 --> 03:31:41,000 THEM BEFORE THEY CAN USE 6103 03:31:41,001 --> 03:31:42,000 E-VERIFY. 6104 03:31:42,001 --> 03:31:44,000 THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE, MADAM 6105 03:31:44,001 --> 03:31:45,000 SPEAKER, BUT THE PREEMPLOYMENT 6106 03:31:45,001 --> 03:31:47,000 DRUG TEST IS AN IMPORTANT TOOL 6107 03:31:47,001 --> 03:31:50,000 AND EMPLOYERS CAN SCREEN THEIR 6108 03:31:50,001 --> 03:31:51,000 EMPLOYERS SO THEY'RE HIRING 6109 03:31:51,001 --> 03:31:52,000 DRUG-FREE EMPLOYEES AT THE 6110 03:31:52,001 --> 03:31:53,000 MOMENT THEY HIRE THEM. 6111 03:31:53,001 --> 03:31:56,000 THREE OTHER CATGOIRS OF DRUG 6112 03:31:56,001 --> 03:31:57,000 TESTING NEED TO FALL INTO THIS. 6113 03:31:57,001 --> 03:31:59,000 POST-ACCIDENT TESTING. 6114 03:31:59,001 --> 03:32:00,000 IF YOU HAVE AN EMPLOYEE 6115 03:32:00,001 --> 03:32:01,000 INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT OF ANY 6116 03:32:01,001 --> 03:32:04,000 KIND, WHETHER IT'S HIS OR HER 6117 03:32:04,001 --> 03:32:05,000 FAULT OR NOT, IF THERE'S A 6118 03:32:05,001 --> 03:32:06,000 PERSONAL INJURY IF THERE'S A 6119 03:32:06,001 --> 03:32:10,000 PROPERTY DAMAGE, THEN AN 6120 03:32:10,001 --> 03:32:11,000 EMPLOYER NEEDS TO HAVE A 6121 03:32:11,001 --> 03:32:13,000 POLICY, A WORKPLACE DRUG 6122 03:32:13,001 --> 03:32:17,000 TESTING POLICY, THAT WILL TEST 6123 03:32:17,001 --> 03:32:18,000 THAT EMPLOYEE ON THE BASIS THAT 6124 03:32:18,001 --> 03:32:21,000 IF THERE'S AN ACCIDENT, THERE'S 6125 03:32:21,001 --> 03:32:22,000 A SIGN THERE THAT'S AN 6126 03:32:22,001 --> 03:32:24,000 INDICATOR. YOU HAVE EMPLOYEE 6127 03:32:24,001 --> 03:32:26,000 PRO--EMPLOYMENT TEST, 6128 03:32:26,001 --> 03:32:28,000 POST-ACCIDENT TESTING, YOU'D 6129 03:32:28,001 --> 03:32:29,000 HAVE TO HAVE REASONABLE 6130 03:32:29,001 --> 03:32:33,000 SUSPICION TESTING, AND THAT IS 6131 03:32:33,001 --> 03:32:34,000 WHEN YOU HAVE TRAINED 6132 03:32:34,001 --> 03:32:36,000 SUPERVIDSERY PERSONNEL THAT ARE 6133 03:32:36,001 --> 03:32:37,000 QUALIFIED, THAT CAN WATCH THE 6134 03:32:37,001 --> 03:32:40,000 BEHAVIOR PATTERNS OF EMPLOYEES 6135 03:32:40,001 --> 03:32:41,000 AND UNDER THAT LEGITIMATE 6136 03:32:41,001 --> 03:32:43,000 EVALUATION SEND EMPLOYEES OFF 6137 03:32:43,001 --> 03:32:44,000 FOR A DRUG TEST THAT ARE 6138 03:32:44,001 --> 03:32:46,000 SHOWING SIGNS OF DRUG ABUSE, 6139 03:32:46,001 --> 03:32:48,000 THAT'S THE THIRD WAY, AND THE 6140 03:32:48,001 --> 03:32:49,000 FOURTH WAY, AND I THINK IT'S 6141 03:32:49,001 --> 03:32:51,000 THE MOST EFFECTIVE, IS RANDOM 6142 03:32:51,001 --> 03:32:53,000 DRUG TESTING, IT'S THE SAME 6143 03:32:53,001 --> 03:32:57,000 SYSTEM WE HAVE FOR OUR 6144 03:32:57,001 --> 03:32:58,000 CERTIFIED -- OUR CERTIFIED 6145 03:32:58,001 --> 03:32:59,000 DRIVER'S LICENSES, OUR 6146 03:32:59,001 --> 03:33:01,000 C.D.L.'S, WHICH I CARRY ONE. 6147 03:33:01,001 --> 03:33:02,000 IF YOU'RE GOING TO DRIVE AN 6148 03:33:02,001 --> 03:33:04,000 OVER THE ROAD TRUCK TODAY, 6149 03:33:04,001 --> 03:33:05,000 MADAM SPEAKER, YOU HAVE TO HAVE 6150 03:33:05,001 --> 03:33:06,000 AN UP TO DATE PHYSICAL, YOU 6151 03:33:06,001 --> 03:33:09,000 HAVE TO HAVE A LOGBOOK AND YOU 6152 03:33:09,001 --> 03:33:11,000 HAVE TO ALSO BE IN THE RANDOM 6153 03:33:11,001 --> 03:33:12,000 DRUG TESTING POOL SO THAT WHEN 6154 03:33:12,001 --> 03:33:14,000 THEY PULL YOUR NUMBER, WHEN THE 6155 03:33:14,001 --> 03:33:16,000 RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR KICKS 6156 03:33:16,001 --> 03:33:19,000 YOUR NUMBER OUT, YOU GO IN AND 6157 03:33:19,001 --> 03:33:20,000 YOU GIVE A SIMPLE AND YOU GET 6158 03:33:20,001 --> 03:33:21,000 TESTED. 6159 03:33:21,001 --> 03:33:23,000 SO IF YOU HAVE FOUR WAYS OF 6160 03:33:23,001 --> 03:33:26,000 WORKPLACE DRUG TESTING, YOU 6161 03:33:26,001 --> 03:33:27,000 HAVE PREEMPLOYMENT, POST 6162 03:33:27,001 --> 03:33:29,000 ACCIDENT, REASONABLE SUSPICION, 6163 03:33:29,001 --> 03:33:31,000 AND RANDOM DRUG TESTING, THOSE 6164 03:33:31,001 --> 03:33:32,000 FOUR COMPONENTS ARE THE TOOLS 6165 03:33:32,001 --> 03:33:35,000 THAT ALL EMPLOYERS SHOULD HAVE 6166 03:33:35,001 --> 03:33:39,000 AND DO NEED TO GUARANTEE A 6167 03:33:39,001 --> 03:33:40,000 DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE. 6168 03:33:40,001 --> 03:33:42,000 AND NOW, MADAM SPEAKER, THINK OF 6169 03:33:42,001 --> 03:33:45,000 A WORLD THAT INSTEAD OF $25 6170 03:33:45,001 --> 03:33:47,000 BILLION IN PROFIT GOING TO DRUG 6171 03:33:47,001 --> 03:33:48,000 LORDS IN SOUTH OF THE BORDER, 6172 03:33:48,001 --> 03:33:51,000 WHEREVER THEY MIGHT BE SOUTH OF 6173 03:33:51,001 --> 03:33:52,000 THE BORDER, WITH ALL OF THIS 6174 03:33:52,001 --> 03:33:54,000 HUMAN CARNAGE OF THE DEATH AND 6175 03:33:54,001 --> 03:33:57,000 THE VIOLENCE THAT COMES FROM THE 6176 03:33:57,001 --> 03:33:58,000 DRUG ABUSE ITSELF, OF THE CRIME 6177 03:33:58,001 --> 03:34:00,000 AND THE DEATH AND THE VIOLENCE 6178 03:34:00,001 --> 03:34:03,000 THAT COMES WITH THE STRUGGLE, 6179 03:34:03,001 --> 03:34:06,000 FIGHTING OVER WHOSE DRUG TURF, 6180 03:34:06,001 --> 03:34:07,000 WHOSE PROFIT, WHOSE ILLEGAL 6181 03:34:07,001 --> 03:34:08,000 BORDER CROSSING ISOING TO BE 6182 03:34:08,001 --> 03:34:09,000 CONTROLLED. 6183 03:34:09,001 --> 03:34:10,000 NEDS OF THAT, ALL OF THAT COULD 6184 03:34:10,001 --> 03:34:14,000 GO AWAY. 6185 03:34:14,001 --> 03:34:15,000 ALL OF THAT COULD GO AWAY IF WE 6186 03:34:15,001 --> 03:34:19,000 REIS IT STIGMATIZE DRUG ABUSE IN 6187 03:34:19,001 --> 03:34:20,000 AMERICA, IF WE INCREASE THE 6188 03:34:20,001 --> 03:34:24,000 TESTING IN THESE CATEGORIES THAT 6189 03:34:24,001 --> 03:34:26,000 I'VE SAID, PRE-LOIMENT, POST 6190 03:34:26,001 --> 03:34:28,000 ACCIDENT AND REASONABLE 6191 03:34:28,001 --> 03:34:29,000 SUSPENSION, RANDOM DRUG TESTING, 6192 03:34:29,001 --> 03:34:30,000 IF WE DID ALL FOUR OF THOSE AND 6193 03:34:30,001 --> 03:34:32,000 IF PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYERS 6194 03:34:32,001 --> 03:34:35,000 CHOSE TO DO SO TO CLEAN UP THEIR 6195 03:34:35,001 --> 03:34:37,000 WORK SITE AND TO LOWER THEIR 6196 03:34:37,001 --> 03:34:40,000 INSURANCE PREMIUMS AND IMPROVE 6197 03:34:40,001 --> 03:34:42,000 THE WORK AREA SO THAT THEY HIRED 6198 03:34:42,001 --> 03:34:45,000 A BETTER CLASS OF EMPLOYEES, IF 6199 03:34:45,001 --> 03:34:46,000 THAT HAPPENED, IF GOVERNMENT 6200 03:34:46,001 --> 03:34:49,000 TESTED IN A RANDOM FASHION SO 6201 03:34:49,001 --> 03:34:50,000 THAT WE WERE SUBJECT AND THAT 6202 03:34:50,001 --> 03:34:54,000 WOULD BE DETERRENT FOR MANY 6203 03:34:54,001 --> 03:34:55,000 PEOPLE WHO MIGHT OTHERWISE BE 6204 03:34:55,001 --> 03:34:58,000 EXPERIMENTING WITH DRUGS, SO IF 6205 03:34:58,001 --> 03:34:59,000 WE TEST IN EMPLOYMENT, ALL 6206 03:34:59,001 --> 03:35:00,000 EMPLOYMENT, AND I'M NOT TALKING 6207 03:35:00,001 --> 03:35:02,000 ABOUT A FEDERAL MANDATE, MADAM 6208 03:35:02,001 --> 03:35:04,000 SPEAKER, I'M TALKING ABOUT 6209 03:35:04,001 --> 03:35:06,000 SETTING A SCENARIO UP WHERE WE 6210 03:35:06,001 --> 03:35:08,000 PROVIDE THE RIGHT INCENTIVES SO 6211 03:35:08,001 --> 03:35:11,000 THIS CAN ACTUALLY HAPPEN, SO 6212 03:35:11,001 --> 03:35:14,000 WORKPLACE DRUG TESTING, WELFARE 6213 03:35:14,001 --> 03:35:15,000 DRUG TESTING, WHY WOULD WE BE 6214 03:35:15,001 --> 03:35:17,000 GRANTING PEOPLE THE BENEFIT OF 6215 03:35:17,001 --> 03:35:19,000 SOMEONE ELSE'S LABOR THROUGH 6216 03:35:19,001 --> 03:35:23,000 HANDING TAX DOLLARS OUT TO 6217 03:35:23,001 --> 03:35:24,000 WELFARE BENEFITS TO PEOPLE WHO 6218 03:35:24,001 --> 03:35:27,000 ARE ENABLED TO TAKE THE DAY OFF 6219 03:35:27,001 --> 03:35:28,000 AND DO DRUGS ALL DAY BECAUSE 6220 03:35:28,001 --> 03:35:31,000 THEY'RE NOT WORKING AND SO WE 6221 03:35:31,001 --> 03:35:33,000 GIVE THEM RENT SUBSIDY, HEAT 6222 03:35:33,001 --> 03:35:35,000 SUBSIDY, FOOD STAMPS, THE HOLE 6223 03:35:35,001 --> 03:35:36,000 LIST, TITLE 19, THE LIST GOES 6224 03:35:36,001 --> 03:35:38,000 ON. 6225 03:35:38,001 --> 03:35:39,000 ALLOWS THEM TO ABUSE DRUGS ALL 6226 03:35:39,001 --> 03:35:42,000 DAY AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO WORK. 6227 03:35:42,001 --> 03:35:43,000 WHY WOULDN'T WE AS A CONDITION 6228 03:35:43,001 --> 03:35:45,000 IT TO OUR HEALTH THAT IS TO BE A 6229 03:35:45,001 --> 03:35:46,000 SAFETY NET FOR THOSE THAT ARE IN 6230 03:35:46,001 --> 03:35:49,000 NEED AND HOPEFULLY A TRANSITION 6231 03:35:49,001 --> 03:35:52,000 INTOHE WORKFORCE, WHERE THEY WANT THEM, WE'RE GOING TO 6232 03:35:52,001 --> 03:35:54,000 REQUIRE YOU SUBMIT YOURSELF TO A RANDOM DRUG TEST. 6233 03:35:54,001 --> 03:35:56,000 THERE WOULD BE A LOT OF PEOPLE 6234 03:35:56,001 --> 03:35:57,000 THAT WOULD NO LONGER BE ON 6235 03:35:57,001 --> 03:35:59,000 WELFARE FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. 6236 03:35:59,001 --> 03:36:00,000 ONE OF THEM IS WE WOULDN'T 6237 03:36:00,001 --> 03:36:02,000 PROVIDE THEM THAT WELFARE IF 6238 03:36:02,001 --> 03:36:03,000 THEY WERE ON DRUGS. 6239 03:36:03,001 --> 03:36:05,000 WE WOULD PULL THE PLUG AND SEND 6240 03:36:05,001 --> 03:36:06,000 THEM TO REHAB. 6241 03:36:06,001 --> 03:36:07,000 IF THEY FAILED THAT, THAT'S 6242 03:36:07,001 --> 03:36:09,000 ANOTHER EQUATION. 6243 03:36:09,001 --> 03:36:11,000 OR, MANY OF THEM WILL JUST DECIDE, I CAN'T LIVE THIS 6244 03:36:11,001 --> 03:36:13,000 ILLEGAL DRUG LIFE ANY LONGER, 6245 03:36:13,001 --> 03:36:14,000 I'M GOING TO HAVE TO GET A JOB 6246 03:36:14,001 --> 03:36:15,000 BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO TEST ME 6247 03:36:15,001 --> 03:36:16,000 EVENTUALLY AND THEY'LL 6248 03:36:16,001 --> 03:36:18,000 TRANSATION OFF OF WELFARE AND 6249 03:36:18,001 --> 03:36:19,000 INTO WORK. 6250 03:36:19,001 --> 03:36:22,000 IF WE TEST IN THE WORKPLACE, 6251 03:36:22,001 --> 03:36:23,000 TO TEST IS IN THE EDUCATIONAL 6252 03:36:23,001 --> 03:36:25,000 INSTITUTIONS. 6253 03:36:25,001 --> 03:36:26,000 YES, THAT INCLUDES OUR COLLEGES, 6254 03:36:26,001 --> 03:36:28,000 OUR UNIVERSITIES, IT INCLUDES 6255 03:36:28,001 --> 03:36:29,000 OUR SCHOOLS, TO ALMOST EVERY 6256 03:36:29,001 --> 03:36:31,000 DEGREE. 6257 03:36:31,001 --> 03:36:33,000 AND IT INCDES THE EMPLOYEES 6258 03:36:33,001 --> 03:36:35,000 THAT ARE THERE AS WELL. 6259 03:36:35,001 --> 03:36:36,000 IF WE HAD A RANDOM DRUG TESTING 6260 03:36:36,001 --> 03:36:39,000 SYSTEM SET UP AND WE THINK OF 6261 03:36:39,001 --> 03:36:41,000 THE THREE LARGE UNIVERSES OF 6262 03:36:41,001 --> 03:36:44,000 THIS SOCIETY, THE WORK FORCE, 6263 03:36:44,001 --> 03:36:45,000 THE WELFARE 6264 03:36:45,001 --> 03:36:47,000 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, THE 6265 03:36:47,001 --> 03:36:51,000 STUDENTS AND FACULTY THERE, WE 6266 03:36:51,001 --> 03:36:54,000 HAVE COVERED EVERYONE IN AMERICA 6267 03:36:54,001 --> 03:36:56,000 ANDEN THEM A RANDOM RISK -- 6268 03:36:56,001 --> 03:36:58,000 GIVEN THEM A RANDOM RISK, I'M 6269 03:36:58,001 --> 03:36:59,000 NOT TALKING ABOUT PUTTING THEM 6270 03:36:59,001 --> 03:37:01,000 ALL IN THE SAME POOL. 6271 03:37:01,001 --> 03:37:02,000 I'M TALKING ABOUT ON A VOLUNTARY 6272 03:37:02,001 --> 03:37:04,000 BASIS FOR THE EMPLOYERS TO DO 6273 03:37:04,001 --> 03:37:06,000 THAT ESPECIALLY IN THE PRIVATE 6274 03:37:06,001 --> 03:37:08,000 SECTOR, MOVE THROUGH THIS, BUILD 6275 03:37:08,001 --> 03:37:10,000 THIS INSTITUTIONALLY AND AT A 6276 03:37:10,001 --> 03:37:11,000 POINT WE THEN -- WE'VE CANED 6277 03:37:11,001 --> 03:37:13,000 UP THE WORKFORCE, WE'VE CLEANED 6278 03:37:13,001 --> 03:37:15,000 UP THE WELFARE ROLLS, WE'VE 6279 03:37:15,001 --> 03:37:16,000 CLEANED UP THE EDUCATIONAL 6280 03:37:16,001 --> 03:37:17,000 INSTITUTIONS. 6281 03:37:17,001 --> 03:37:20,000 THREE HUGE UNIVERSES OF THIS 6282 03:37:20,001 --> 03:37:22,000 SOCIETY AND CIVILIZATION, MADAM SPEAKER. 6283 03:37:22,001 --> 03:37:23,000 AND THE RESULT OF IT, WHO WOULD 6284 03:37:23,001 --> 03:37:24,000 BE LEFT? 6285 03:37:24,001 --> 03:37:26,000 WHO WOULD BE LEFT TO BE ON 6286 03:37:26,001 --> 03:37:27,000 DRUGS? 6287 03:37:27,001 --> 03:37:29,000 AND THE ANSWER IS, NOBODY, 6288 03:37:29,001 --> 03:37:30,000 EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE DEALING AND 6289 03:37:30,001 --> 03:37:31,000 THOSE WHO ARE STEALING. 6290 03:37:31,001 --> 03:37:32,000 IT'S A LOT EASIER FOR LAW 6291 03:37:32,001 --> 03:37:34,000 ENFORCEMENT TO FOCUS ON THE 6292 03:37:34,001 --> 03:37:37,000 DEALERS AND STEALERS IF WE 6293 03:37:37,001 --> 03:37:38,000 PROVIDE THE DETERRENT FOR 6294 03:37:38,001 --> 03:37:39,000 EVERYBODY ELSE IN THOSE OTHER 6295 03:37:39,001 --> 03:37:42,000 HUGE SPHERES OF THIS SOCIETY, 6296 03:37:42,001 --> 03:37:43,000 THIS CULTURE, THIS ECONOMY. 6297 03:37:43,001 --> 03:37:48,000 THAT WOULD, THIS PROPOSAL THAT I 6298 03:37:48,001 --> 03:37:49,000 HAVE LAID OUT HERE, MADAM 6299 03:37:49,001 --> 03:37:50,000 SPEAKER, WOULD SHUT DOWN 6300 03:37:50,001 --> 03:37:53,000 DRAMATICALLY THE DEMAND FOR 6301 03:37:53,001 --> 03:37:54,000 ILLEGAL DRUGS IN THE UNITED 6302 03:37:54,001 --> 03:37:55,000 STATES. 6303 03:37:55,001 --> 03:37:58,000 IF WE DID THAT, THEN WE ULD 6304 03:37:58,001 --> 03:37:59,000 SEE FEWER ILLEGAL BORDER 6305 03:37:59,001 --> 03:38:00,000 CROSSINGS, WE WOULDN'T SEE THE 6306 03:38:00,001 --> 03:38:03,000 DEATH AND DEBT INSTRUCTION IN 6307 03:38:03,001 --> 03:38:04,000 MEXICO AS THEY FIGHT OVER WHO'S 6308 03:38:04,001 --> 03:38:05,000 GOING TO SELL DRUGS BECAUSE THE 6309 03:38:05,001 --> 03:38:06,000 MARKET WOULD BE DRYING UP HERE 6310 03:38:06,001 --> 03:38:08,000 IN THE UNITED STATES. 6311 03:38:08,001 --> 03:38:09,000 WE HAVE TO DRY THIS MARKET UP. 6312 03:38:09,001 --> 03:38:11,000 AND IF WE CAN'T DRY THE MARKET 6313 03:38:11,001 --> 03:38:12,000 UP ON ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, 6314 03:38:12,001 --> 03:38:15,000 THEN WE GET TO WILLIAM F. 6315 03:38:15,001 --> 03:38:16,000 BUCKLEY'S SOLUTION WHICH IS, 6316 03:38:16,001 --> 03:38:18,000 CAPITULATE AND LEGALIZE. 6317 03:38:18,001 --> 03:38:19,000 I'M NOT THERE YET, MADAM 6318 03:38:19,001 --> 03:38:21,000 SPEAKER, AND I SAY YET BECAUSE I 6319 03:38:21,001 --> 03:38:22,000 THINK THAT IT'S WORTH 6320 03:38:22,001 --> 03:38:24,000 ESTABLISHING THE RULE OF LAW, 6321 03:38:24,001 --> 03:38:26,000 IT'S WORTH RE-ESTABLISHING IT, 6322 03:38:26,001 --> 03:38:28,000 IT'S WORTH ENFORCING ON THE 6323 03:38:28,001 --> 03:38:29,000 BORDER, IT'S WORTH ENFORCING ON 6324 03:38:29,001 --> 03:38:31,000 OUR WORK SITE, IT'S WORTH 6325 03:38:31,001 --> 03:38:33,000 ENFORCING ACROSS THE STREETS OF 6326 03:38:33,001 --> 03:38:34,000 AMERICA AND E HIGHWAYS OF 6327 03:38:34,001 --> 03:38:35,000 AMERICA AND WE OUGHT TO HAVE 6328 03:38:35,001 --> 03:38:36,000 EFFORTS THAT ARE EFFECTIVE AND 6329 03:38:36,001 --> 03:38:38,000 WE SHOULD REWARD THE PEOPLE WHO 6330 03:38:38,001 --> 03:38:42,000 ENFORCE THE L. 6331 03:38:42,001 --> 03:38:43,000 BUT IF WE OULD FAIL TO DO THAT 6332 03:38:43,001 --> 03:38:45,000 AND IF WE'RE UNABLE TO IMPLEMENT 6333 03:38:45,001 --> 03:38:49,000 A POLICY THAT WOULD BE WORKPLACE 6334 03:38:49,001 --> 03:38:50,000 DRUG TESTING, THENT SOME POINT 6335 03:38:50,001 --> 03:38:52,000 ALL THE VIOLENCE THAT COMES WITH 6336 03:38:52,001 --> 03:38:54,000 THIS, DRUGS THAT WE HAVE TODAY, 6337 03:38:54,001 --> 03:38:56,000 IS A MIRROR OF WHAT HAPPENED 6338 03:38:56,001 --> 03:38:58,000 BACK DURING THE PROHIBITION ERA 6339 03:38:58,001 --> 03:39:00,000 OF THE ROARING 1920'S. 6340 03:39:00,001 --> 03:39:02,000 WHEN THIS COUNTRY CAME TO A 6341 03:39:02,001 --> 03:39:05,000 CONCLUSION THEY COULDN'T ENFORCE 6342 03:39:05,001 --> 03:39:07,000 A PROHIBITION ON ALCOHOL AND 6343 03:39:07,001 --> 03:39:09,000 THAT THE VIOLENT CRIME THAT WAS 6344 03:39:09,001 --> 03:39:11,000 COMING WITH IT AND THEN THE 6345 03:39:11,001 --> 03:39:14,000 NONVIOLENT CRIME WAS SO GREAT 6346 03:39:14,001 --> 03:39:16,000 THAT THEY WOULD RATHER TOLERATE 6347 03:39:16,001 --> 03:39:17,000 THE ALCOHOL THAN TOLERATE THE 6348 03:39:17,001 --> 03:39:19,000 VIOLENCE. 6349 03:39:19,001 --> 03:39:21,000 I'M NOT THERE, WE HAVE A 6350 03:39:21,001 --> 03:39:22,000 TOLERANCE LEVEL BUILT INTO THIS 6351 03:39:22,001 --> 03:39:23,000 CIVILIZATION THAT'S THE UNITED 6352 03:39:23,001 --> 03:39:24,000 STATES OF AMERICA THAT ACCEPTS 6353 03:39:24,001 --> 03:39:26,000 THE IDEA THAT IF IT WE DON'T SEE 6354 03:39:26,001 --> 03:39:27,000 IT IN FRONT OF US EVERYDAY, 6355 03:39:27,001 --> 03:39:29,000 WE'RE NOT GOING TO SCORE THE 6356 03:39:29,001 --> 03:39:31,000 CARNAGE. BUT THE CARNAGE IS HIGH. 6357 03:39:31,001 --> 03:39:32,000 THE LOSS IN LIVES IS HIGH. 6358 03:39:32,001 --> 03:39:36,000 THE LOSS IN LIVES EVEN AT THE 6359 03:39:36,001 --> 03:39:39,000 HANDSES OF ILLEGAL ALIENS TO 6360 03:39:39,001 --> 03:39:42,000 AMERICANS IS VERY, VERY HIGH. 6361 03:39:42,001 --> 03:39:43,000 WE HAVE HAD A NUMBER OF 6362 03:39:43,001 --> 03:39:45,000 WITNESSES COME BEFORE THE 6363 03:39:45,001 --> 03:39:46,000 IMMIGRATION SUBCOMMITTEE THAT 6364 03:39:46,001 --> 03:39:48,000 ARE SURVIVING FAMILY MEMBERS WHO 6365 03:39:48,001 --> 03:39:52,000 HAVE LOST A LOVED ONE AT THE 6366 03:39:52,001 --> 03:39:54,000 HANDS OF ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIENS 6367 03:39:54,001 --> 03:39:56,000 WHO HAD BEEN INTERDICTED BY LAW 6368 03:39:56,001 --> 03:39:59,000 ENFORCEMENT, HAD LAW UN-- LAW 6369 03:39:59,001 --> 03:40:00,000 ENFORCEMENT HAD ENCOUNTER THEM. 6370 03:40:00,001 --> 03:40:02,000 PERHAPS KNEW THEY WERE ILLEGAL 6371 03:40:02,001 --> 03:40:04,000 OR CHOSE NOT TO DETERMINE AND 6372 03:40:04,001 --> 03:40:05,000 RELEASED THEM BACK ON THE 6373 03:40:05,001 --> 03:40:07,000 STREETS. 6374 03:40:07,001 --> 03:40:08,000 A GOOD NUMBER OF THESE 6375 03:40:08,001 --> 03:40:09,000 PERPETRATORS THAT TOOK THE LIVES 6376 03:40:09,001 --> 03:40:14,000 OF AMERICANS HAD BEEN ARRESTED A 6377 03:40:14,001 --> 03:40:16,000 NUMBER OF TIMES BEFORE, THAT 6378 03:40:16,001 --> 03:40:18,000 AVERAGE IS AIGH NUMBER THAT'S 6379 03:40:18,001 --> 03:40:20,000 PART OF A G.A.O. STUDY THAT WAS 6380 03:40:20,001 --> 03:40:23,000 RELEASED IN MAY OF 2005. 6381 03:40:23,001 --> 03:40:25,000 AND YET WE STILL HAVE LOCAL LAW 6382 03:40:25,001 --> 03:40:28,000 ENFORCEMENT THAT'S TOLD ON A 6383 03:40:28,001 --> 03:40:30,000 CONTINUAL BASIS THAT THEY REALLY 6384 03:40:30,001 --> 03:40:32,000 DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO ENFORCE 6385 03:40:32,001 --> 03:40:34,000 ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OR U.S. 6386 03:40:34,001 --> 03:40:36,000 IMMIGRATION LAW. 6387 03:40:36,001 --> 03:40:38,000 MADAM SPEAR, I REJECT THAT 6388 03:40:38,001 --> 03:40:39,000 PHILOSOPHY. 6389 03:40:39,001 --> 03:40:42,000 IT IS A SOLID POSITION FOR LOCAL 6390 03:40:42,001 --> 03:40:43,000 LAW ENFORCEMENT TO ENFORCE 6391 03:40:43,001 --> 03:40:46,000 IMMIGRATION LAW. 6392 03:40:46,001 --> 03:40:48,000 WE PASSED THE 287-G PROGRAM THAT 6393 03:40:48,001 --> 03:40:50,000 SETS IT UP SO THAT LOCAL LAW 6394 03:40:50,001 --> 03:40:51,000 ENFORCEMENT CAN RECEIVE TRAINING 6395 03:40:51,001 --> 03:40:52,000 AND WORK IN DIRECT CORPORATION 6396 03:40:52,001 --> 03:40:55,000 WITH I.C.E. AND STEP INTO THE 6397 03:40:55,001 --> 03:40:56,000 SHOES OF I.C.E. 6398 03:40:56,001 --> 03:40:57,000 THAT'S A 287-G PROGRAM. 6399 03:40:57,001 --> 03:40:58,000 THAT NEEDS TO BE EXPANDED. 6400 03:40:58,001 --> 03:41:02,000 IT NEEDS TO MOVE FORWARD. 6401 03:41:02,001 --> 03:41:05,000 AS DOES 6402 03:41:05,001 --> 03:41:07,000 EVERIFY NEEDS TO BE EXPANDED SO 6403 03:41:07,001 --> 03:41:09,000 THAT AN EMPLOYER CAN USE IT TO 6404 03:41:09,001 --> 03:41:11,000 RUN HIS CURRENT EMPLOYEES 6405 03:41:11,001 --> 03:41:13,000 THROUGH IT, TO VERIFY THAT THEY 6406 03:41:13,001 --> 03:41:14,000 ARE -- THAT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE 6407 03:41:14,001 --> 03:41:16,000 WORKING THERE FOR HIM NOW ARE 6408 03:41:16,001 --> 03:41:18,000 LAWFULLY THERE. 6409 03:41:18,001 --> 03:41:21,000 NOT JUST ON THE NEW HIRES. 6410 03:41:21,001 --> 03:41:23,000 THAT WILL BE HELPFUL WITH THIS. 6411 03:41:23,001 --> 03:41:24,000 BUT WE NEED TO DO MUCH, MUCH 6412 03:41:24,001 --> 03:41:25,000 MORE. 6413 03:41:25,001 --> 03:41:27,000 WE NEED TO ENFORCE OUR 6414 03:41:27,001 --> 03:41:28,000 IMMIGRATION LAWS, WE NEED TO 6415 03:41:28,001 --> 03:41:29,000 STOP THE BLEEDING ATED BORDER, 6416 03:41:29,001 --> 03:41:31,000 WE NEED TO BEEP YOU HAVE OUR 6417 03:41:31,001 --> 03:41:32,000 PORTS OF ENTR WE NEED TO USE 6418 03:41:32,001 --> 03:41:35,000 ALL TECHNOLOGY DOWN THERE AT ALL 6419 03:41:35,001 --> 03:41:36,000 LOCATIONS AND CONTINUALLY GET 6420 03:41:36,001 --> 03:41:37,000 BETTER BECAUSE THEY'RE PLAYING A 6421 03:41:37,001 --> 03:41:39,000 CHESS GAME AGAINST US. 6422 03:41:39,001 --> 03:41:40,000 THEY'RE BRINGING CONTRABAND, 6423 03:41:40,001 --> 03:41:42,000 ILLEGAL DRUGS AND OUR PRODUCTS, 6424 03:41:42,001 --> 03:41:44,000 INTO THE UNITED STATES, EVEN 6425 03:41:44,001 --> 03:41:45,000 THREE OUR LEGAL PORTS OF ENTRY 6426 03:41:45,001 --> 03:41:46,000 AND THE ILLEGAL RTS OF ENTRY 6427 03:41:46,001 --> 03:41:49,000 AND YET, AND YET, MADAM SPEAKER, 6428 03:41:49,001 --> 03:41:51,000 AS I LISTEN AND I READ THE US IN 6429 03:41:51,001 --> 03:41:54,000 AND HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH -- 6430 03:41:54,001 --> 03:41:56,000 READ THE NEWS AND HAVE 6431 03:41:56,001 --> 03:41:57,000 DISCUSSIONS WITH THE 6432 03:41:57,001 --> 03:41:58,000 ADMINISTRATION AT THE CABINET 6433 03:41:58,001 --> 03:42:00,000 LEVEL, I SEE A SHIFT IN PRIORITY 6434 03:42:00,001 --> 03:42:01,000 FROM THE INTERDICTION OF ILLEGAL 6435 03:42:01,001 --> 03:42:03,000 DRUGS AND PEOPLE COMING INTO THE 6436 03:42:03,001 --> 03:42:04,000 UNITED STATES ACROSS OUR 6437 03:42:04,001 --> 03:42:07,000 SOUTHERN BORDER TO A PIVOT, 6438 03:42:07,001 --> 03:42:10,000 ALMOST A FULL PIVOT, MADAM 6439 03:42:10,001 --> 03:42:12,000 SPEAKER, TO INSTEAD OF LINING 6440 03:42:12,001 --> 03:42:14,000 OUR FOLKS UP ON THE BORDER AND 6441 03:42:14,001 --> 03:42:16,000 GUARDING AGAINST WHAT'S COMING 6442 03:42:16,001 --> 03:42:19,000 FROM THE SOUTH, BUT A TURNAROUND 6443 03:42:19,001 --> 03:42:23,000 AND LOOK TO THE NORTHO BE IN A 6444 03:42:23,001 --> 03:42:25,000 POSITION TO INTERCEPT A LEGAL 6445 03:42:25,001 --> 03:42:26,000 SECOND AMENDMENT-DEFENDED 6446 03:42:26,001 --> 03:42:28,000 AMERICAN GUNS THAT ARE GOING 6447 03:42:28,001 --> 03:42:29,000 SOUTH THAT BECOME ILLEGAL WHEN 6448 03:42:29,001 --> 03:42:31,000 THEY'RE SMUGGLED ACROSS THE 6449 03:42:31,001 --> 03:42:32,000 BORDER INTO MEXICO. 6450 03:42:32,001 --> 03:42:34,000 NOW, I'VE HEARD SOME 6451 03:42:34,001 --> 03:42:36,000 HIGH-PROFILE INDIVIDUALS TALK 6452 03:42:36,001 --> 03:42:40,000 ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE. 6453 03:42:40,001 --> 03:42:41,000 AND ONE OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS 6454 03:42:41,001 --> 03:42:45,000 WOULD BE GENERAL WESLEY CLARK 6455 03:42:45,001 --> 03:42:47,000 WHO USED TO COMMAND NATO AND WAS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. 6456 03:42:47,001 --> 03:42:48,000 I LISTENED TO HIM TALK. 6457 03:42:48,001 --> 03:42:51,000 HE ARGUED THAT WE WERE SMUGGLING 6458 03:42:51,001 --> 03:42:53,000 ASSAULT WEAPONS INTO ILLEGAL -- 6459 03:42:53,001 --> 03:42:54,000 ILLEGAL ASSAULT WEAPONS INTO 6460 03:42:54,001 --> 03:42:56,000 MEXICO AND SMUGGLING MACHINE 6461 03:42:56,001 --> 03:42:59,000 GUNS INTO MEXICO AND, MADAM 6462 03:42:59,001 --> 03:43:00,000 SPEAKER, NEITHER ONE OF THOSE 6463 03:43:00,001 --> 03:43:02,000 STATEMENTS IS TRUE. 6464 03:43:02,001 --> 03:43:03,000 THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS AN 6465 03:43:03,001 --> 03:43:04,000 ASSAULT WEAPON INTO THE UNITED 6466 03:43:04,001 --> 03:43:05,000 STATES, AT LEAST BY A 6467 03:43:05,001 --> 03:43:07,000 DEFINITION. 6468 03:43:07,001 --> 03:43:08,000 THAT WAS A LEGAL DEFINITION THAT 6469 03:43:08,001 --> 03:43:09,000 EXPIRED A FEW YEARS AGO. 6470 03:43:09,001 --> 03:43:12,000 RIGHTFULLY SO. 6471 03:43:12,001 --> 03:43:13,000 BECAUSE YOU CANNOT DEFINE AN 6472 03:43:13,001 --> 03:43:15,000 ASSAULT WEAPON WITHOUT DEFINING 6473 03:43:15,001 --> 03:43:16,000 WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. 6474 03:43:16,001 --> 03:43:18,000 YOU CAN'T DEFINE AN ASSAULT 6475 03:43:18,001 --> 03:43:20,000 WEAPON BY SIMPLY DEFINING ITS 6476 03:43:20,001 --> 03:43:21,000 FUNCTIONALITY. 6477 03:43:21,001 --> 03:43:23,000 BECAUSE THE FUNCTIONALITY OF THE 6478 03:43:23,001 --> 03:43:24,000 THINGS THAT WESLEY CLARK AND 6479 03:43:24,001 --> 03:43:26,000 OTHERS, THOSE WHO WANT TO TAKE 6480 03:43:26,001 --> 03:43:28,000 AY OUR SECOND AMENDMENT 6481 03:43:28,001 --> 03:43:30,000 RIGHTS, THOSE WEAPONS THAT THEY 6482 03:43:30,001 --> 03:43:33,000 DECLARE TO BE AN ASSAULT WEAPON, 6483 03:43:33,001 --> 03:43:34,000 WHEN YOU DEFINE THEM BY 6484 03:43:34,001 --> 03:43:36,000 FUNCTIONALITY, THEY BECOME DEAR 6485 03:43:36,001 --> 03:43:40,000 RIFLES -- DEER RIFLES. 6486 03:43:40,001 --> 03:43:42,000 IN FACT, THE MOST POPULAR GUN TO 6487 03:43:42,001 --> 03:43:44,000 USE, HUNTING THE COYOTES IN THE 6488 03:43:44,001 --> 03:43:46,000 UNITED STATES, IS AN AR-15 WHICH 6489 03:43:46,001 --> 03:43:49,000 IS THE M-16 MODEL. 6490 03:43:49,001 --> 03:43:50,000 223 -- .223 IN CALIBER. 6491 03:43:50,001 --> 03:43:51,000 IT'S THE MOST POPULAR GUN THERE 6492 03:43:51,001 --> 03:43:53,000 IS. 6493 03:43:53,001 --> 03:43:54,000 IT'S A SEMIAUTOIC. 6494 03:43:54,001 --> 03:43:56,000 IT FUNCTIONS LIKE ANYBODY'S DIER 6495 03:43:56,001 --> 03:43:57,000 FLE. 6496 03:43:57,001 --> 03:43:59,000 IT'S JUST RIGHT FOR HUNDING -- 6497 03:43:59,001 --> 03:44:00,000 HUNTING COYOTES. 6498 03:44:00,001 --> 03:44:03,000 SO THAT'S THE KIND OF WEAPON 6499 03:44:03,001 --> 03:44:04,000 THAT WESLEY CLARK WOULD DECLARE 6500 03:44:04,001 --> 03:44:08,000 TO BE AN ASSAULT WEAPON. 6501 03:44:08,001 --> 03:44:09,000 AND IT'S THE KIND OF WEAPON THAT 6502 03:44:09,001 --> 03:44:12,000 WAS INCLUDED IN THE LIST OF GUNS 6503 03:44:12,001 --> 03:44:13,000 THAT WERE DESCRIBED BY THIS 6504 03:44:13,001 --> 03:44:16,000 ADMINISTRATION, INCLUDING THE 6505 03:44:16,001 --> 03:44:17,000 SECRETARY OF STATE HERSELF, THAT 6506 03:44:17,001 --> 03:44:20,000 90% OF THE GUNS USED TO COMMIT 6507 03:44:20,001 --> 03:44:21,000 VIOLENCE IN MEXICO ARE SMUGGLED 6508 03:44:21,001 --> 03:44:24,000 IN FROM THE UNITED STATES. 6509 03:44:24,001 --> 03:44:25,000 COME FROM THE UNITED STATES. 6510 03:44:25,001 --> 03:44:27,000 THAT WAS NEVER A TRUTHFUL 6511 03:44:27,001 --> 03:44:29,000 NUMBER. 6512 03:44:29,001 --> 03:44:30,000 IT WAS NEVER AN ACCURATE NUMBER, 6513 03:44:30,001 --> 03:44:31,000 MADAM SPEAKER. 6514 03:44:31,001 --> 03:44:34,000 THE NUMBER IS ACTUALLY NOT 90% 6515 03:44:34,001 --> 03:44:38,000 MUCH CLOSER TO 17% OF THE GUNS 6516 03:44:38,001 --> 03:44:40,000 USED IN CRIMES IN MEXICO, ARE 6517 03:44:40,001 --> 03:44:42,000 SMUGGLED INTO MEXICO FROM THE 6518 03:44:42,001 --> 03:44:43,000 UNITED STATES. 6519 03:44:43,001 --> 03:44:44,000 MOST OF THESE GUNS ARE ILLEGAL 6520 03:44:44,001 --> 03:44:45,000 IN THE UNITED STATES. 6521 03:44:45,001 --> 03:44:48,000 MEXICO HAS DIFFERENT LAWS. 6522 03:44:48,001 --> 03:44:49,000 SO WE CAN'T HARDLY OUTLAW GUNS 6523 03:44:49,001 --> 03:44:50,000 IN AMERICA BY FOLLOWING A 6524 03:44:50,001 --> 03:44:52,000 MEXICAN LAW. 6525 03:44:52,001 --> 03:44:53,000 WE'VE GOT TO DEFEND THE 6526 03:44:53,001 --> 03:44:54,000 CONSTITUTION, THE SECOND 6527 03:44:54,001 --> 03:44:55,000 AMENDMENT, THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND 6528 03:44:55,001 --> 03:44:57,000 BEAR ARMENTS, THE HELLER 6529 03:44:57,001 --> 03:44:58,000 DECISION WHICH -- ARMS, THE 6530 03:44:58,001 --> 03:45:02,000 HELLER DECISION THAT GIVES AN 6531 03:45:02,001 --> 03:45:05,000 INDIVIDUAL THE RIGHT TO PERSONAL 6532 03:45:05,001 --> 03:45:07,000 PROTECTION, NOT TO BE DENIED IN 6533 03:45:07,001 --> 03:45:09,000 AN EFFECTIVE FASHION BY A LOCAL JURISDICTION. 6534 03:45:09,001 --> 03:45:11,000 BUT 17%, NOT 90% OF THE ILLEGAL 6535 03:45:11,001 --> 03:45:12,000 GUNS ARE THE GUNS USED IN 6536 03:45:12,001 --> 03:45:14,000 MEXICO, CAME FROM THE UNITED 6537 03:45:14,001 --> 03:45:15,000 STATES. 6538 03:45:15,001 --> 03:45:16,000 THE 90% NUMBER CAME FROM AN 6539 03:45:16,001 --> 03:45:18,000 EVALUATION OF RUNNING A DATABASE 6540 03:45:18,001 --> 03:45:21,000 OFF OF SOME SMALL SEGMENT OF 6541 03:45:21,001 --> 03:45:22,000 GUNS THAT WERE GATHERED UP AND 6542 03:45:22,001 --> 03:45:24,000 CONFISCATED THAT HAD BEEN 6543 03:45:24,001 --> 03:45:25,000 INVOLVED IN AT LEAST PICKED UP 6544 03:45:25,001 --> 03:45:27,000 WITH SOME PEOPLE THAT WERE 6545 03:45:27,001 --> 03:45:28,000 COMMITTING CRIMES AND BECAUSE IN 6546 03:45:28,001 --> 03:45:30,000 THE UNITED STATES WE PUT A 6547 03:45:30,001 --> 03:45:31,000 SERIAL NUMBER ON GUNS, THEN YOU 6548 03:45:31,001 --> 03:45:33,000 CAN TRACK THOSE GUNS, BUT A LOT 6549 03:45:33,001 --> 03:45:34,000 OF THE GUNS THAT ARE MEXICO 6550 03:45:34,001 --> 03:45:36,000 DON'T HAVE SERIAL NUMBERS. 6551 03:45:36,001 --> 03:45:37,000 THEY CAME FROM OTHER COUNTRIES 6552 03:45:37,001 --> 03:45:39,000 AND OTHER CONTINENTS AROUND THE 6553 03:45:39,001 --> 03:45:41,000 GLOBE, CAN'T BE RACED. 6554 03:45:41,001 --> 03:45:43,000 SO IF YOU LOOK AT -- TRACED. 6555 03:45:43,001 --> 03:45:45,000 SO IF YOU LOOK AT, IF YOU TAKE 6556 03:45:45,001 --> 03:45:46,000 THE UNIVERSE OF GUNS THAT HAVE 6557 03:45:46,001 --> 03:45:48,000 BEEN GATHERED UP IN THIS BATTLE 6558 03:45:48,001 --> 03:45:51,000 WITH THE DRUG CARTELS AND YOU 6559 03:45:51,001 --> 03:45:54,000 TAKE A LOOK AT THEM, OF THOSE 6560 03:45:54,001 --> 03:45:56,000 THAT YOU COULD TRACE, A SMALL 6561 03:45:56,001 --> 03:45:58,000 UNIT, 90% CAME FROM THE UNITED 6562 03:45:58,001 --> 03:45:59,000 STATES, BUT OF ALL THE GUNS, 6563 03:45:59,001 --> 03:46:01,000 ABOUT 17% DID. 6564 03:46:01,001 --> 03:46:03,000 MY POINT IS, MADAM SPEAKER, THAT 6565 03:46:03,001 --> 03:46:05,000 AMERICAN GUNS ARE NOT THE MAINLY 6566 03:46:05,001 --> 03:46:08,000 PROBLEM THAT MEXICO HAS -- MAJOR 6567 03:46:08,001 --> 03:46:09,000 PROBLEM THAT MEXICO HAS. 6568 03:46:09,001 --> 03:46:14,000 THE MAJOR PROBLEM MEXICO HAS IS 6569 03:46:14,001 --> 03:46:15,000 THE VIOLENT DRUG CARTEL, VICIOUS 6570 03:46:15,001 --> 03:46:16,000 ATTACKS ON THEIR COMPETITORS AND 6571 03:46:16,001 --> 03:46:18,000 THE LAW ENFORCEMENT IN MEXICO 6572 03:46:18,001 --> 03:46:20,000 AND SPILLING OVER INTO THE 6573 03:46:20,001 --> 03:46:24,000 UNITED STATES AND THAT VIOLENCE 6574 03:46:24,001 --> 03:46:25,000 IS ROOTED IN THE EXTREMELY HIGH 6575 03:46:25,001 --> 03:46:27,000 PROFITABILITY OF SELLING DRUGS 6576 03:46:27,001 --> 03:46:28,000 TO THE UNITED STATES, THE SOURCE 6577 03:46:28,001 --> 03:46:30,000 OF THAT IS THE DEMAND HERE IN 6578 03:46:30,001 --> 03:46:31,000 THE UNITED STATES. 6579 03:46:31,001 --> 03:46:32,000 WE'RE DOING NOTHING ABOUT THE 6580 03:46:32,001 --> 03:46:34,000 DEMAND FOR ILLEGAL DRUGS, WE'RE 6581 03:46:34,001 --> 03:46:35,000 DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THE 6582 03:46:35,001 --> 03:46:37,000 SMUGGLING OF ILLEGAL DRUGS INTO 6583 03:46:37,001 --> 03:46:38,000 THE UNITED STATES. 6584 03:46:38,001 --> 03:46:40,000 VERY LITTLE ABOUT THE SMUGGLING 6585 03:46:40,001 --> 03:46:41,000 OF ILLEGAL PEOPLE INTO THE 6586 03:46:41,001 --> 03:46:43,000 UNITED STATES AND I WILL SAY 6587 03:46:43,001 --> 03:46:45,000 TODAY, MADAM SPEAKER, THAT 6588 03:46:45,001 --> 03:46:48,000 EFFECTIVELY THIS ADMINISTRATION 6589 03:46:48,001 --> 03:46:52,000 HAS SUSPENDED WORK SITE 6590 03:46:52,001 --> 03:46:54,000 ENFORCEMENT OR HAS NOT BEEN A 6591 03:46:54,001 --> 03:46:56,000 HIGH PROFILE, ILLEGAL 6592 03:46:56,001 --> 03:46:57,000 IMMIGRATION RAID ON AN EMPLOYER 6593 03:46:57,001 --> 03:46:58,000 IN THE UNITED STATES, SINCE THAT 6594 03:46:58,001 --> 03:46:59,000 ONE IN THE EARLY PART OF THE 6595 03:46:59,001 --> 03:47:03,000 OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THAT TOOK 6596 03:47:03,001 --> 03:47:06,000 PLACE ON THE ENGINE FACTORY IN 6597 03:47:06,001 --> 03:47:09,000 WASHINGTON STATE. 6598 03:47:09,001 --> 03:47:11,000 WHEN THAT HAPPENED, THE 6599 03:47:11,001 --> 03:47:12,000 SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY 6600 03:47:12,001 --> 03:47:14,000 SAID SHE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT 6601 03:47:14,001 --> 03:47:15,000 IN ADVANCE. 6602 03:47:15,001 --> 03:47:17,000 SHE ORDERED AN INVESTIGATION. 6603 03:47:17,001 --> 03:47:19,000 AN INVESTIGATION OF HER OWN PEOPLE. 6604 03:47:19,001 --> 03:47:23,000 BECAUSE SHE WAS CONCERNED THAT 6605 03:47:23,001 --> 03:47:25,000 THEY MIGHT -- THEY MIGHT BE NOT 6606 03:47:25,001 --> 03:47:26,000 FOLLOWING THROUGH WITH THE 6607 03:47:26,001 --> 03:47:27,000 RIGHT KIND OF INVESTIGATION. 6608 03:47:27,001 --> 03:47:29,000 I HAVE NO IDEA. 6609 03:47:29,001 --> 03:47:32,000 I THINK SHE DIDN'T LIKE THE 6610 03:47:32,001 --> 03:47:35,000 IDEA OF THE RAID GOING OFF AND 6611 03:47:35,001 --> 03:47:39,000 PEOPLE GOING OFF, AND I'M TOLD 6612 03:47:39,001 --> 03:47:41,000 THAT AT LEAST 28 OF THE ILLEGAL 6613 03:47:41,001 --> 03:47:43,000 EMPLOYEES GOT WORK PERMITS TO 6614 03:47:43,001 --> 03:47:44,000 GO BACK TO WORK IN THE SAME 6615 03:47:44,001 --> 03:47:47,000 FACTORY. 6616 03:47:47,001 --> 03:47:49,000 I'M TOLD THEY WERE ISSUED BY 6617 03:47:49,001 --> 03:47:50,000 THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 6618 03:47:50,001 --> 03:47:52,000 SECURITY. 6619 03:47:52,001 --> 03:47:56,000 I SAY THIS, MADAM SPEAKER, TO 6620 03:47:56,001 --> 03:47:57,000 YOU, FOR EVERYONE IN AMERICA TO 6621 03:47:57,001 --> 03:48:00,000 HEAR, YOU CANNOT CONDUCT RAIDS 6622 03:48:00,001 --> 03:48:02,000 ON EMPLOYERS, PROSECUTE 6623 03:48:02,001 --> 03:48:04,000 EMPLOYERS, AND DO SO 6624 03:48:04,001 --> 03:48:06,000 EFFECTIVELY, PUNISH THEM FOR 6625 03:48:06,001 --> 03:48:08,000 HIRING, KNOWINGLY AND WILLFULLY 6626 03:48:08,001 --> 03:48:10,000 HIRING ILLEGALS, WITHOUT 6627 03:48:10,001 --> 03:48:11,000 IDENTIFYING THE PEOPLE IT IS 6628 03:48:11,001 --> 03:48:13,000 THAT ARE WORKING ILLEGALLY FOR 6629 03:48:13,001 --> 03:48:14,000 THE EMPLOYER. 6630 03:48:14,001 --> 03:48:16,000 THAT PART OF THE RAID IS 6631 03:48:16,001 --> 03:48:17,000 ESSENTIAL IN BLDING THE CASE 6632 03:48:17,001 --> 03:48:18,000 AGAINST THE EMPLOYERS. 6633 03:48:18,001 --> 03:48:22,000 THEY'RE ALL PART AND PARCEL OF 6634 03:48:22,001 --> 03:48:24,000 THE SAME PROBLEM. 6635 03:48:24,001 --> 03:48:26,000 YOU HAVE TO START AT THE BASE 6636 03:48:26,001 --> 03:48:28,000 OF IT AND LET'S JUST SAY THERE 6637 03:48:28,001 --> 03:48:30,000 ARE A THOUSAND PEOPLE WORKING 6638 03:48:30,001 --> 03:48:32,000 IN A FACTLY AND 350 OF THEM ARE 6639 03:48:32,001 --> 03:48:34,000 WORKING THERE ILLEGALLY. 6640 03:48:34,001 --> 03:48:36,000 CAN YOU GO IN AND PICK UP THE 6641 03:48:36,001 --> 03:48:38,000 EMPLOYERS AND ALLEGE THEY HAVE 6642 03:48:38,001 --> 03:48:39,000 ILLEGAL EMPLOYEES WITHOUT SOME 6643 03:48:39,001 --> 03:48:41,000 INFORMATION? WITHOUT SOME PROOF? 6644 03:48:41,001 --> 03:48:42,000 WITHOUT DATA? 6645 03:48:42,001 --> 03:48:44,000 YOU GO IN AND LINE UP THE 6646 03:48:44,001 --> 03:48:45,000 EMPLOYEES AND RUN THEM THROUGH 6647 03:48:45,001 --> 03:48:47,000 THE CHECK AND VERIFY, YOU'RE 6648 03:48:47,001 --> 03:48:49,000 LEGAL, YOU'RE LEGAL, FINE, 6649 03:48:49,001 --> 03:48:52,000 WE'LL LET YOU GO BACK TO WORK. 6650 03:48:52,001 --> 03:48:54,000 BUT THOSE OF YOU WE SUSPECT OR 6651 03:48:54,001 --> 03:48:55,000 ESSENTIALLY CONFIRM, WE'RE NOT. 6652 03:48:55,001 --> 03:48:57,000 WE'LL BUILD A CASE AGAINST YOU. 6653 03:48:57,001 --> 03:48:59,000 IF YOU WANT TO VOLUNTARILY GO 6654 03:48:59,001 --> 03:49:01,000 BACK HOME, HERE'S YOUR TICKET. 6655 03:49:01,001 --> 03:49:02,000 GO BACK HOME, STAY THERE. 6656 03:49:02,001 --> 03:49:04,000 BUT DON'T COME BACK HERE AGAIN. 6657 03:49:04,001 --> 03:49:06,000 YOU'LL BE FACING A 20-YEAR 6658 03:49:06,001 --> 03:49:09,000 PENALTY IN A FEDERAL 6659 03:49:09,001 --> 03:49:10,000 PENITENTIARY FOR HAVING ONCE 6660 03:49:10,001 --> 03:49:12,000 BEEN DEPORTED COMING INTO THE 6661 03:49:12,001 --> 03:49:13,000 UNITED STATES ILLEGALLY. 6662 03:49:13,001 --> 03:49:15,000 BUT IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY 6663 03:49:15,001 --> 03:49:16,000 BECAUSE WE'RE NOT ENFORCING THE 6664 03:49:16,001 --> 03:49:19,000 LAW EFFECTIVELY ENOUGH. 6665 03:49:19,001 --> 03:49:21,000 BUT OF THOSE WE WOULD GATHER 6666 03:49:21,001 --> 03:49:23,000 INTO THAT KIND OF ROUNDUP, 6667 03:49:23,001 --> 03:49:26,000 THOSE HERE ILLEGALLY, WORKING 6668 03:49:26,001 --> 03:49:27,000 ILLEGALLY, GUILTY OF DOCUMENT 6669 03:49:27,001 --> 03:49:28,000 FRAUD, ALSO BRING THE CASE 6670 03:49:28,001 --> 03:49:30,000 AGAINST THEM AND IN THE PROCESS 6671 03:49:30,001 --> 03:49:32,000 OF THE CASE, YOU GATHER 6672 03:49:32,001 --> 03:49:34,000 INFORMATION, YOU GET SEPPINGSES 6673 03:49:34,001 --> 03:49:35,000 -- DEPOSITIONS, YOU GET COURT 6674 03:49:35,001 --> 03:49:39,000 SYSTEM THAT TELLS YOU HOW AN 6675 03:49:39,001 --> 03:49:40,000 EMPLOYER IS COMPLICIT IN HIRING 6676 03:49:40,001 --> 03:49:42,000 ILLEGALS. 6677 03:49:42,001 --> 03:49:43,000 AND THEN, MADAM SPEAKER, WE 6678 03:49:43,001 --> 03:49:45,000 NEED TO PASS THE NEW IDEA ACT. 6679 03:49:45,001 --> 03:49:47,000 THE NEW IDEA ACT. 6680 03:49:47,001 --> 03:49:50,000 THIS IS ACTUALLY THE BEST PART 6681 03:49:50,001 --> 03:49:52,000 OF THE ENTIRE HOUR BECAUSE IT 6682 03:49:52,001 --> 03:49:54,000 BRINGS TO BEAR A LOGICAL 6683 03:49:54,001 --> 03:49:56,000 APPROACH TO A PROBLEM THAT HAS 6684 03:49:56,001 --> 03:49:58,000 BEEN BEFUDDING CONGRESS FOR A 6685 03:49:58,001 --> 03:49:59,000 LONG TIME. 6686 03:49:59,001 --> 03:50:02,000 CONGRESS IS ONLY BEFUDDLED 6687 03:50:02,001 --> 03:50:03,000 BECAUSE WE HAVE CONFLICTING 6688 03:50:03,001 --> 03:50:05,000 INTERESTS, POLITICAL POWER OVER 6689 03:50:05,001 --> 03:50:08,000 HERE, MORE ILLEGALS THAT 6690 03:50:08,001 --> 03:50:10,000 DAY WILL BE VOTERS BUT WILL BE 6691 03:50:10,001 --> 03:50:12,000 COUNTED IN THE 2010 CENSUS 6692 03:50:12,001 --> 03:50:13,000 ANYWAY, AND ON THIS SIDE AND 6693 03:50:13,001 --> 03:50:15,000 THIS SIDE, THOSE THAT HAVE A 6694 03:50:15,001 --> 03:50:18,000 VESTED INTEREST IN CHEAP LABOR, 6695 03:50:18,001 --> 03:50:22,000 THAT THEY THEY CAN LAY THE COST 6696 03:50:22,001 --> 03:50:24,000 OF THAT CHEAP LABOR OFF ON THE 6697 03:50:24,001 --> 03:50:26,000 TAXPAYER IN THE FORMF WELFARE 6698 03:50:26,001 --> 03:50:27,000 FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE 6699 03:50:27,001 --> 03:50:28,000 ILLEGALLY. 6700 03:50:28,001 --> 03:50:31,000 BUT THE REAL SOLUTION, THE 6701 03:50:31,001 --> 03:50:33,000 BEST, MOST IMPORTANT SOLUTION 6702 03:50:33,001 --> 03:50:36,000 IS THE NEW IDEA ACT. 6703 03:50:36,001 --> 03:50:37,000 NEW IDEA DOES THIS IT 6704 03:50:37,001 --> 03:50:39,000 RE-ESTABLISHES, CLARIFIED THAT 6705 03:50:39,001 --> 03:50:40,000 WAGES AND BENEFITS PAID TO 6706 03:50:40,001 --> 03:50:45,000 ILLEGALS A NOT DEDUCTIBLE FOR 6707 03:50:45,001 --> 03:50:48,000 FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES. 6708 03:50:48,001 --> 03:50:51,000 IT DENIES THE WRITEOFF AS A 6709 03:50:51,001 --> 03:50:53,000 BUSINESS EXPENSE, ALLOWS THE 6710 03:50:53,001 --> 03:50:54,000 I.R.S. TO COME IN AND TAKE THE 6711 03:50:54,001 --> 03:50:55,000 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS THAT 6712 03:50:55,001 --> 03:50:56,000 ARE THERE ON THE FORM YOU FILE 6713 03:50:56,001 --> 03:50:59,000 WITH YOUR INCOME TAX, RUN THOSE 6714 03:50:59,001 --> 03:51:01,000 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS THROUGH 6715 03:51:01,001 --> 03:51:03,000 THE E-VERIFY PROGRAM, IF THEY 6716 03:51:03,001 --> 03:51:05,000 DON'T COME BACK THAT THAT'S THE 6717 03:51:05,001 --> 03:51:08,000 PERSON WHO CAN LAWFULLY WORK IN 6718 03:51:08,001 --> 03:51:10,000 THE UNITED STATES, THEN THE 6719 03:51:10,001 --> 03:51:12,000 I.R.S. CAN DENY THE WRITEOFF OF 6720 03:51:12,001 --> 03:51:13,000 THAT BUSINESS EXPENSE AND SO, 6721 03:51:13,001 --> 03:51:17,000 LET'S JUST SAY YOU'RE AN 6722 03:51:17,001 --> 03:51:18,000 EMPLOYER AND YOU'RE PAYING AN 6723 03:51:18,001 --> 03:51:19,000 ILLEGAL $10 AN HOUR. 6724 03:51:19,001 --> 03:51:22,000 IF THEY WORK 2,000 HOURS A 6725 03:51:22,001 --> 03:51:23,000 YEAR, THESE ARE NUMBERS I CAN 6726 03:51:23,001 --> 03:51:27,000 DO THE MATH IN MY HEAD MAYBE AS 6727 03:51:27,001 --> 03:51:29,000 WE GO SO YOU'VE PAID THEM THEN 6728 03:51:29,001 --> 03:51:33,000 $20,000 TO DO THEIR WORK. 6729 03:51:33,001 --> 03:51:35,000 WRITTEN IT OFF IN YOUR PAYROLL 6730 03:51:35,001 --> 03:51:39,000 CALCULATION, SOCIAL SECURITY, 6731 03:51:39,001 --> 03:51:42,000 MEDICARE, MEDICAID, .0765 TIMES 6732 03:51:42,001 --> 03:51:45,000 TWO, 15.3% ADDED ON THAT, SO 6733 03:51:45,001 --> 03:51:50,000 $306 -- EXCUSE ME, THAT'S $306 6734 03:51:50,001 --> 03:51:51,000 ON $1,000, WOULD BE THE -- I 6735 03:51:51,001 --> 03:51:54,000 SHOULD BACK THIS NUMBER UP. 6736 03:51:54,001 --> 03:51:55,000 IN ANY CASE, YOU'D PAY SOCIAL 6737 03:51:55,001 --> 03:51:57,000 SECURITY, AND MEDICARE AND 6738 03:51:57,001 --> 03:51:58,000 MEDICAID, THERE MAY OR MAY NOT 6739 03:51:58,001 --> 03:52:00,000 BE WITHHOLDING FOR STATE AND 6740 03:52:00,001 --> 03:52:01,000 FEDERAL INCOME TAX. 6741 03:52:01,001 --> 03:52:04,000 BUT THAT WRITEOFF THAT YOU 6742 03:52:04,001 --> 03:52:05,000 WOULD HAVE FOR THE BUSINESS 6743 03:52:05,001 --> 03:52:09,000 EXPENSE WOULD BE THE $10 AN 6744 03:52:09,001 --> 03:52:13,000 HOUR PLUS THE 15.3% OF THE $10 6745 03:52:13,001 --> 03:52:15,000 AN HOUR SO THAT'S $1.53 AN H 6746 03:52:15,001 --> 03:52:16,000 THAT GOES ON FOR SOCIAL 6747 03:52:16,001 --> 03:52:17,000 SECURITY, MEDICARE, AND 6748 03:52:17,001 --> 03:52:18,000 MEDICAID. 6749 03:52:18,001 --> 03:52:19,000 YOU WOULD WRITE THAT ALL OFF AS 6750 03:52:19,001 --> 03:52:22,000 A BUSINESS EXPENSE. 6751 03:52:22,001 --> 03:52:24,000 BUT WHEN THE I.R.S. COMES IN, 6752 03:52:24,001 --> 03:52:26,000 RUNS THE NUMBERS THROUGH THE 6753 03:52:26,001 --> 03:52:28,000 DATABASE AND THE E-VERIFY 6754 03:52:28,001 --> 03:52:29,000 THEM OUT, SAYS, CAN'T ACCEPT 6755 03:52:29,001 --> 03:52:31,000 THAT, THEN THEY'D LOOK AT YOUR 6756 03:52:31,001 --> 03:52:33,000 INCOME TAX REPORT AND SAY, YOU 6757 03:52:33,001 --> 03:52:36,000 CAN'T WRITE OFF THIS $10 AN 6758 03:52:36,001 --> 03:52:41,000 HOUR PLUS ANOTHER $1.53 FOR SOCIAL SECURITY. 6759 03:52:41,001 --> 03:52:42,000 YOU'RE $11.53 AN HOUR GOS FROM 6760 03:52:42,001 --> 03:52:45,000 THE EXPENSE SIDE OF YOUR 6761 03:52:45,001 --> 03:52:46,000 LEDGER, WHERE IT'S ATTACKS 6762 03:52:46,001 --> 03:52:50,000 DEDUCTION, PRESUMABLY OVER TO 6763 03:52:50,001 --> 03:52:52,000 THE PROFIT SIDE OF YOUR LEDGER, 6764 03:52:52,001 --> 03:52:56,000 WHERE IT'S TAXABLE INCOME. 6765 03:52:56,001 --> 03:52:58,000 IN SIMPLE TERMS, A $10 AN HOUR 6766 03:52:58,001 --> 03:53:00,000 EMPLOYEE, DENIED AS AN EXPENSE 6767 03:53:00,001 --> 03:53:02,000 BY AN I.R.S. AUDIT BECAUSE 6768 03:53:02,001 --> 03:53:04,000 THEY'RE ILLEGAL,ECOMES A $16 6769 03:53:04,001 --> 03:53:07,000 AN HOUR EMPLOYEE WHEN THE 6770 03:53:07,001 --> 03:53:08,000 I.R.S. ATTACS TO THAT THE 6771 03:53:08,001 --> 03:53:11,000 INTEREST AND THE PENALTY AND BY 6772 03:53:11,001 --> 03:53:12,000 TIME YOU PAY ABOUT A 34% 6773 03:53:12,001 --> 03:53:13,000 CORPORATE INCOME TAX ON THAT 6774 03:53:13,001 --> 03:53:15,000 FUND. 6775 03:53:15,001 --> 03:53:17,000 SO AN EMPLOYER WOULD MAKE A RATIONAL DECISION. 6776 03:53:17,001 --> 03:53:21,000 THEY WOULD LOOK AT, DON'T TO 6777 03:53:21,001 --> 03:53:22,000 PAY $10 AN HOUR WITH AN ILLEGAL 6778 03:53:22,001 --> 03:53:24,000 EMPLOYEE THAT I'M CONFIDENT IS 6779 03:53:24,001 --> 03:53:25,000 ILLEGAL OR STRONGLY SUSPECT IS, 6780 03:53:25,001 --> 03:53:28,000 ON THE CHANCE THE I.R.S. WILL 6781 03:53:28,001 --> 03:53:29,000 COME IN AND THERE'S GOING TO BE 6782 03:53:29,001 --> 03:53:31,000 A $16 AN HOUR BACK CHARGE FOR 6783 03:53:31,001 --> 03:53:33,000 HIM AND THE REST OF THE 6784 03:53:33,001 --> 03:53:35,000 ILLEGALS WORKING FOR ME, OR DO 6785 03:53:35,001 --> 03:53:37,000 I WANT TO TRANSITION MY 6786 03:53:37,001 --> 03:53:39,000 EMPLOYEES OVER TO A LEGAL WORKFORCE? 6787 03:53:39,001 --> 03:53:41,000 MOST EMPLOYERS DECIDE THEY'D 6788 03:53:41,001 --> 03:53:44,000 LIKE TO PAY $12 OR $13 OR $14 6789 03:53:44,001 --> 03:53:47,000 AN HOUR TO SOMEBODY LEGAL THAN 6790 03:53:47,001 --> 03:53:48,000 $10 AN HOUR TO SOMEONE WHO IS 6791 03:53:48,001 --> 03:53:49,000 ILLEGAL. 6792 03:53:49,001 --> 03:53:53,000 THAT'S HOW NEW IDEA WORKS. 6793 03:53:53,001 --> 03:53:55,000 IT USES THE I.R.S. TO COME IN 6794 03:53:55,001 --> 03:53:56,000 AND ENFORCE THE IMMIGRATION 6795 03:53:56,001 --> 03:53:57,000 LAWS WE HAVE IN THE UNITED 6796 03:53:57,001 --> 03:53:58,000 STATES. 6797 03:53:58,001 --> 03:54:00,000 IT REQUIRES THE I.R.S. TO SET 6798 03:54:00,001 --> 03:54:01,000 UP A COOPERATIVE EXCHANGE OF 6799 03:54:01,001 --> 03:54:03,000 INFORMATION WITH THE DATA THAT 6800 03:54:03,001 --> 03:54:04,000 THEY GATHER IN THEIR AUDITS, 6801 03:54:04,001 --> 03:54:05,000 WITH THE SOCIAL SECURITY 6802 03:54:05,001 --> 03:54:08,000 ADMINISTRATION WHO HAS A WHOLE 6803 03:54:08,001 --> 03:54:09,000 LIST OF NO WORK SOCIAL SECURITY 6804 03:54:09,001 --> 03:54:11,000 NUMBERS, NO MATCH SOCIAL 6805 03:54:11,001 --> 03:54:12,000 SECURITY NUMBERS, AND REQUIRE 6806 03:54:12,001 --> 03:54:15,000 THEM, THOSE TWO ENTIES, 6807 03:54:15,001 --> 03:54:16,000 I.R.S. AND SOCIAL SECURITY, TO 6808 03:54:16,001 --> 03:54:17,000 COOPERATE WITH THE DEPARTMENT 6809 03:54:17,001 --> 03:54:19,000 OF HOMELAND SECURITY WHO ALSO 6810 03:54:19,001 --> 03:54:20,000 HAS A DATABASE OF THOSE WHO 6811 03:54:20,001 --> 03:54:22,000 COME INTO THE UNITED STATES 6812 03:54:22,001 --> 03:54:24,000 ILLEGALLY, THOSE WHO HAVE 6813 03:54:24,001 --> 03:54:25,000 STOLEN I.D.'S AND DOCUMENTS, 6814 03:54:25,001 --> 03:54:27,000 ETC. 6815 03:54:27,001 --> 03:54:30,000 SO WE WOULD HAVE NOT ONLY -- 6816 03:54:30,001 --> 03:54:31,000 YOU ALWAYS HEAR THE RIGHT HAND 6817 03:54:31,001 --> 03:54:33,000 DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE LEFT HAND 6818 03:54:33,001 --> 03:54:36,000 IS DOING, BUT WHEN WE PUT NEW 6819 03:54:36,001 --> 03:54:37,000 IDEA IN PLACE, IT WILL BE THE 6820 03:54:37,001 --> 03:54:40,000 RIGHT HAND OF THE I.R.S. MAKING 6821 03:54:40,001 --> 03:54:41,000 SURE THE LEFT HAND OF THE 6822 03:54:41,001 --> 03:54:42,000 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 6823 03:54:42,001 --> 03:54:44,000 KNOW WHAT IS THE MIDDLE HAND OF 6824 03:54:44,001 --> 03:54:47,000 THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS DOING. 6825 03:54:47,001 --> 03:54:48,000 THAT'S A THREE-WAY, A 6826 03:54:48,001 --> 03:54:50,000 THREE-FOR. 6827 03:54:50,001 --> 03:54:51,000 THAT BRINGS TOGETHER THREE HUGE 6828 03:54:51,001 --> 03:54:53,000 AMERICAN AGENCIES THAT WOULD BE 6829 03:54:53,001 --> 03:54:57,000 WORKING IN COOPERATION TO GIVE 6830 03:54:57,001 --> 03:54:58,000 A FINANCIAL INCENTIVE THROUGH 6831 03:54:58,001 --> 03:55:00,000 DENYING DEDUCTIBILITY, 6832 03:55:00,001 --> 03:55:02,000 INTEREST, PENALTY, THE RISK OF 6833 03:55:02,001 --> 03:55:03,000 PENALTIES FROM THE DEPARTMENT 6834 03:55:03,001 --> 03:55:05,000 OF HOMELAND SECURITY ONCE 6835 03:55:05,001 --> 03:55:07,000 THEY'VE BEEN NOTIFIED OF THE 6836 03:55:07,001 --> 03:55:08,000 I.R.S. 6837 03:55:08,001 --> 03:55:10,000 THE RISK GETS GREATER AND 6838 03:55:10,001 --> 03:55:12,000 GREATER AND GREATER AND 6839 03:55:12,001 --> 03:55:13,000 EMPLOYERS WOULD PURGE 6840 03:55:13,001 --> 03:55:14,000 THEMSELVES, OR CLEAN UP THEIR 6841 03:55:14,001 --> 03:55:16,000 WORKPLACE RULES. 6842 03:55:16,001 --> 03:55:18,000 WE COULD DO THIS ALMOST 6843 03:55:18,001 --> 03:55:20,000 ADMINISTRATIVELY AND WITH A 6844 03:55:20,001 --> 03:55:21,000 POSITIVE TAX FLOW. 6845 03:55:21,001 --> 03:55:24,000 FURTHERMORE, MADAM SPEAKER IF 6846 03:55:24,001 --> 03:55:27,000 WE DO THIS, AS WE SEE PEOPLE VOLUNTEER TO SELF-DEPORT 6847 03:55:27,001 --> 03:55:28,000 BECAUSE WE ENFORCED OUR LAWS, 6848 03:55:28,001 --> 03:55:30,000 WE'LL HAVE TAKEN AT LEAST THE 6849 03:55:30,001 --> 03:55:32,000 SEVEN MILLION WORKING ILLEGALS 6850 03:55:32,001 --> 03:55:34,000 AND MOVED THEM ON OUT AND MADE 6851 03:55:34,001 --> 03:55:35,000 ROOM FOR SEVEN MILLION WHO ARE 6852 03:55:35,001 --> 03:55:36,000 LEGAL TO WORK IN THE UNITED 6853 03:55:36,001 --> 03:55:38,000 STATES. 6854 03:55:38,001 --> 03:55:39,000 THERE ARE OVER 11 MILLION 6855 03:55:39,001 --> 03:55:41,000 LOOKING FOR JOBS TODAY. 6856 03:55:41,001 --> 03:55:42,000 I THINK THE NUMBER OF WORKING 6857 03:55:42,001 --> 03:55:43,000 ILLEGALS IS GREATER THAN SEVEN 6858 03:55:43,001 --> 03:55:44,000 MILLION. 6859 03:55:44,001 --> 03:55:46,000 I THINK IT'S GREATER THAN 11 6860 03:55:46,001 --> 03:55:47,000 MILLION. 6861 03:55:47,001 --> 03:55:48,000 BUT A NATION THAT HAS 11 6862 03:55:48,001 --> 03:55:49,000 MILLION OR 11.5 MILLION PEOPLE 6863 03:55:49,001 --> 03:55:51,000 LOOKING FOR WORK, A NATION THAT 6864 03:55:51,001 --> 03:55:54,000 HAS 69 MILLION AMERICANS THAT 6865 03:55:54,001 --> 03:55:59,000 ARE SIMPLY NOT IN THE WORKFORCE 6866 03:55:59,001 --> 03:56:00,000 -- WORK FORCE ALTOGETHER, -- 6867 03:56:00,001 --> 03:56:02,000 WORKFORCE ALTOGETHER, THEY CAN 6868 03:56:02,001 --> 03:56:03,000 SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. 6869 03:56:03,001 --> 03:56:05,000 WE HAVE TO HAVE THE LEADERSHIP, 6870 03:56:05,001 --> 03:56:07,000 THE CLARITY, AND THE POLITICAL 6871 03:56:07,001 --> 03:56:08,000 WILL. 6872 03:56:08,001 --> 03:56:09,000 THE ONLY WAY FOR THE POLITICAL 6873 03:56:09,001 --> 03:56:11,000 WILL TO COME TO THIS CONGRESS 6874 03:56:11,001 --> 03:56:13,000 IS IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CONTACT THEIR MEMBERS OF 6875 03:56:13,001 --> 03:56:16,000 CONGRESS, THEY TURN UP THE HEAT 6876 03:56:16,001 --> 03:56:17,000 IF THEY SAY, PASS THE NEW IDEA 6877 03:56:17,001 --> 03:56:19,000 ACT, TURN THE I.R.S. LOOSE. 6878 03:56:19,001 --> 03:56:21,000 THEY LOVE ENFORCING THEIR JOB. 6879 03:56:21,001 --> 03:56:22,000 LET THEM HELP WITH THE 6880 03:56:22,001 --> 03:56:24,000 IMMIGRATION PART OF THIS 6881 03:56:24,001 --> 03:56:25,000 BECAUSE THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS 6882 03:56:25,001 --> 03:56:27,000 OF COLLECTING THE TAX 6883 03:56:27,001 --> 03:56:30,000 LIABILITIES DUE THE UNITED 6884 03:56:30,001 --> 03:56:31,000 STATES GOVERNMENT ANYWAY. 6885 03:56:31,001 --> 03:56:32,000 JUST COOPERATE WITH THE SOCIAL 6886 03:56:32,001 --> 03:56:33,000 SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, 6887 03:56:33,001 --> 03:56:35,000 COOPERATE WITH THE DEPARTMENT 6888 03:56:35,001 --> 03:56:37,000 OF HOMELAND SECURITY, YOU'LL 6889 03:56:37,001 --> 03:56:38,000 SOLVE A LOT OF THIS INTERNALLY 6890 03:56:38,001 --> 03:56:40,000 WITHOUT HAVING TO DO VERY MANY 6891 03:56:40,001 --> 03:56:43,000 OF THE WORK SITE RAIDS. 6892 03:56:43,001 --> 03:56:45,000 AND WHILE THAT'S GOING ON, WE 6893 03:56:45,001 --> 03:56:47,000 CAN TURN THE PIVOT BACK THE 6894 03:56:47,001 --> 03:56:48,000 OTHER WAY AT THE BORDER, LET'S 6895 03:56:48,001 --> 03:56:50,000 INTERCEPT THE ILLEGAL DRUGS AND 6896 03:56:50,001 --> 03:56:52,000 PEOPLE COMING INTO THE UNITED 6897 03:56:52,001 --> 03:56:54,000 STATES, LET'S NOT HAVE OUR 6898 03:56:54,001 --> 03:56:56,000 NUMBER ONE FOCUS BE TRYING TO 6899 03:56:56,001 --> 03:56:58,000 INTERCEPT THINGS COMING INTO 6900 03:56:58,001 --> 03:57:00,000 MEXICO THAT ARE LEGAL IN THE 6901 03:57:00,001 --> 03:57:01,000 UNITED STATES, GUNS AND CASH, 6902 03:57:01,001 --> 03:57:03,000 LET'S INTERCEPT ILLEGAL DRUGS 6903 03:57:03,001 --> 03:57:06,000 AND ILLEGAL PEOPLE. IF WE DO ALL THIS, MADAM 6904 03:57:06,001 --> 03:57:07,000 SPEAKER, WE CAN SOLVE THIS DRUG 6905 03:57:07,001 --> 03:57:09,000 PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES, 6906 03:57:09,001 --> 03:57:10,000 WE CAN SOLVE THE ILLEGAL 6907 03:57:10,001 --> 03:57:11,000 IMMIGRATION PROBLEM IN THE 6908 03:57:11,001 --> 03:57:14,000 UNITED STATES, IT IS A 6909 03:57:14,001 --> 03:57:15,000 COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION, I 6910 03:57:15,001 --> 03:57:16,000 ADVOCATE FOR IT. 6911 03:57:16,001 --> 03:57:17,000 I CALL UPON THIS CONGRESS TO 6912 03:57:17,001 --> 03:57:20,000 TAKE ACTION ON IT OR AT LEAST 6913 03:57:20,001 --> 03:57:23,000 HAVE A LEGITIMATE DEBATE. 6914 03:57:23,001 --> 03:57:25,000 IF THERE'S A FLAW IN MY 6915 03:57:25,001 --> 03:57:26,000 I'M STANDING HERE WAITING FOR 6916 03:57:26,001 --> 03:57:29,000 THAT CRITICISM, I DON'T HEAR 6917 03:57:29,001 --> 03:57:30,000 IT, I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF 6918 03:57:30,001 --> 03:57:32,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: DOES 6919 03:57:32,001 --> 03:57:33,000 THE GENTLEMAN HAVE A MOTION. 6920 03:57:33,001 --> 03:57:34,000 MR. KING: I MOVE THE HOUSE DO 6921 03:57:34,001 --> 03:57:35,000 NOW ADJOURN. 6922 03:57:35,001 --> 03:57:37,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 6923 03:57:37,001 --> 03:57:39,000 QUESTION IS ON THE MOTION TO ADJOURN. 6924 03:57:39,001 --> 03:57:40,000 THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. 6925 03:57:40,001 --> 03:57:42,000 THOSE OPPOSED, NO. 6926 03:57:42,001 --> 03:57:43,000 THE AYES HAVE IT. 6927 03:57:43,001 --> 03:57:44,000 THE MOTION IS AGREED TO.